Oncomelania

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style="background:#Template:Taxobox colour;" | Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Sorbeoconcha Suborder: Hypsogastropoda Infraorder: Littorinomorpha Superfamily: Rissooidea Family: Pomatiopsidae Genus: Oncomelania
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Oncomelania is a genus of very small tropical freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Various Oncomelania species are significant medically, because they can serve as vectors for two serious human diseases: they can carry the schistosomiasis blood fluke parasite, and the paragonimus lung fluke parasites.

These Oncomelania snails are distantly related to the marine periwinkle, and more closely related to the small marine snails of the family Rissoidae.

Species in the genus Oncomelania

• Oncomelania hupensis
• Oncomelania nosophora

References

• David S. Woodruff, M. Patricia Carpenter, E. Suchart Upatham & Vithoon Viyanant (1999) Molecular Phylogeography of Oncomelania Lindoensis (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae), the Intermediate Host of Schistosoma Japonicum in Sulawesi. - J. Moll. Stud., 65, 21-31.

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