Melanopsis
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Melanopsis is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Melanopsidae.[2]
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A live Melanopsis praemorsa | |
Five views of a shell of Melanopsis buccinoidea | |
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The genus first appeared in the Cretaceous.[3]
Melanopsis is the type genus of the family Melanopsidae.[4]