Tomichia
# Tomichia

Tomichia is a genus of very small freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Tomichiidae.

## Distribution

The distribution of the genus Tomichia includes South Africa and Eastern Zaire. Tomichia is the only genus of Pomatiopsidae in Africa.

## Ecology

This genus occurs is both freshwater and brackish water. There exist halophilic species of Tomichia which live in saline lakes such as Tomichia ventricosa.

## Species

Brown (1994) recognized 10 species (7 in South Africa and 3 in Central Africa) and one undescribed species. Kameda & Kato (2011) recognized 11 species of Tomichia.

Species within the genus Tomichia include:

* Tomichia cawstoni Connolly, 1939
* Tomichia differens Connolly, 1939
* Tomichia guillemei Leloup, 1953
* Tomichia hendrickxi (Verdcourt, 1950)
* Tomichia kivuensis Mandahl-Barth, 1974
* Tomichia natalensis Connolly, 1939
* Tomichia rogersi (Connolly, 1929)
* Tomichia tristis (Morelet, 1889) - critically endangered
* Tomichia ventricosa (Reeve, 1842) - type species
* Tomichia zwellendamensis (Küster, 1852)
* (?)Tomichia n.sp. - reported by Cohen (1986) from Lake Turkana
