title: Bellamya (gastropod)
text: # 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)
  