Paramelania damoni
Paramelania damoni is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.
The specific name damoni is in honor of Robert Damon from Weymouth, who collected the type specimen.
Distribution
The distribution of this species includes Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.The type locality is Lake Tanganyika.
Description
Paramelania damoni was originally described by Edgar Albert Smith in 1881. Smith's original text reads as follows:The width of the shell is 28 mm. The height of the shell is 37 mm.
Paramelania crassigranulata was recognized as a form of this species by Brown.