| Pachychilus
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| Two shells of Pachychilus laevissimus
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Mollusca
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| Class:
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Gastropoda
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| Subclass:
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Caenogastropoda
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| Order:
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incertae sedis
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| Superfamily:
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Cerithioidea
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| Family:
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Pachychilidae
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| Genus:
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Pachychilus
I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851
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| Type species
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Melania laevissima G. B. Sowerby I, 1824
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| Synonyms
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- Cercimelania P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892 (invalid: unnecessary replacement name for Pachychilus)
- Melania (Pachychilus) I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851
- Oxymelania Crosse & P. Fischer, 1892
- Pachycheilus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 (invalid: unjustified emendation of Pachychilus)
- Pachychilus (Glyptomelania) Crosse & P. Fischer, 1892· accepted, alternate representation
- Pachychilus (Oxymelania) Crosse & P. Fischer, 1892· accepted, alternate representation
- Pachychilus (Pachychilus) I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851· accepted, alternate representation
- Pachychilus (Pilsbrychilus) J. P. E. Morrison, 1951 (junior synonym of Pachychilus)
- Pachychilus (Potamanax) Pilsbry, 1893· accepted, alternate representation
- Sphaeromelania Rovereto, 1899 (invalid: unnecessary replacement name for Pachychilus)
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Pachychilus, common name the jute snails, is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
Pachychilus is the type genus of the family Pachychilidae.