Melanoides nyassana

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

clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Melanoides
Species: M. nyassana
Binomial name
Melanoides nyassana
(E. A. Smith, 1877)[2]
Synonyms

Melania nyassana E. A. Smith, 1877

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

Melania truncatelliformis Bourguignat, 1889 may be s a synonym of Melanoides nyassana.[3]

This species is endemic to Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.

References

  1. ^ Kaunda E., Magombo Z., Kahwa D., Mailosa A., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Melanoides nyassana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ^ Smith E. A. (1877). "On the shells of Lake Nyasa, and on a few marine species from Mozambique". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 712-722. Plate 75. figure 3.
  3. ^ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0 7484 0026 5.