Melanoides nodicincta

Melanoides nodicincta
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Melanoides
Species: M. nodicincta
Binomial name
Melanoides nodicincta
(Dohrn, 1865)[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Melania nodicincta Dohrn, 1865
  • Melania simonsi E. A. Smith, 1877
  • Melanoides simonsi (E. A. Smith, 1877)

Melanoides nodicincta is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.

Melania simonsi E. A. Smith, 1877 / Melanoides simonsi (E. A. Smith, 1877) is considered as a synonym of Melanoides nodicincta (Dohrn, 1865), but it may be a separate species.[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Malawi. The type locality is near the southern end of the Lake Nyassa and in upper part of its outlet - the Shire River.[2]

Ecology

Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.

References

  1. ^ Kaunda E., Magombo Z., Kahwa D., Mailosa A., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Melanoides nodicincta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ^ a b Dohrn H. (1865). "List of the land and freshwater shells of the Zambezi and Lake Nyasa, eastern tropical Africa, collected by John Kirk". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 231-234. page 234.
  3. ^ a b Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0 7484 0026 5.