Bellamya (gastropod)
# Bellamya (gastropod)

Bellamya is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae.

Bellamya is the type genus of the subfamily Bellamyinae.

## Distribution

The indigenous distribution of Bellamya includes Africa and Asia.

## Species

Species within the genus Bellamya include:

* Bellamya alberti (Cox, 1926) †
* Bellamya beijiangensis Yü & Zhang, 1982 †
* Bellamya campaniformis Bickel, 1976 †
* Bellamya capillata (Frauenfeld, 1865)
* Bellamya celsispiralis Gurung, Takayasu & Matsuoka, 1997 †
* Bellamya constricta (Martens, 1889)
* Bellamya contracta (Haas, 1934)
* Bellamya crassispiralis Annandale, 1921
* Bellamya crawshayi (Smith, 1893)
* Bellamya dagangensis Youluo, 1978 †
* Bellamya dissimilis (Mueller, 1774)
* Bellamya ecclesi (Crowley & Pain, 1964)
* Bellamya heudei guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906)
* Bellamya hilmandensis (Kobelt, 1909)
* Bellamya jeffreysi (Frauenfeld, 1865)
* Bellamya jiangyouensis Yü, 1974 †
* Bellamya kowiayiensis (Brazier, 1886)
* Bellamya kweilinensis (Hsü, 1935) †
* Bellamya leopoldvillensis (Putzeys, 1898)
* Bellamya liberiana (Schepman, 1888)
* Bellamya micron Annandale, 1921
* Bellamya monardi (Haas, 1934)
* Bellamya mweruensis (Smith, 1893)
* Bellamya orlovi (Lindholm, 1932) †
* Bellamya pagodiformis (Smith, 1893)
* Bellamya phthinotropis (Martens, 1892)
* Bellamya retusa (Meek & Hayden, 1856) †
* Bellamya robertsoni (Frauenfeld, 1865)
* Bellamya rubicunda (Martens, 1879)
* Bellamya suzukii Matsuoka, 1985 †
* Bellamya tenuisculpta (von Martens, 1874) †
* Bellamya trochlearis (Martens, 1892)
* Bellamya unicolor (Olivier, 1804) - Bellamya duponti De Rochebrune, 1882 is the type species and it is probably synonym of Bellamya unicolor

### synonyms

* Bellamya bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Filopaludina bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822)
* Bellamya chinensis (Reeve 1863): synonym of Cipangopaludina chinensis (Gray, 1834) - Chinese mystery snail
* Bellamya costulata (Martens, 1892): synonym of Bellamya constricta (von Martens, 1889) (a junior synonym)
* Bellamya crassa (Benson, 1836): synonym of Mekongia crassa (Benson, 1836) (a junior synonym)
* Bellamya jucunda (Smith, 1892): synonym of Bellamya constricta (von Martens, 1889) (a junior synonym)
* Bellamya manhongensis Zhang, Liu & Wang, 1981: synonym of Sinotaia manhongensis (W.-Z. Zhang, Y.-F. Liu & Y.-X. Wang, 1981) (original combination)
