Melanoides

Melanoides

live Melanoides tuberculata

Apertural view of two shells of Melanoides tuberculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Thiaridae
Genus:	Melanoides Olivier, 1804^[1]
Diversity
about 30 species (in Africa)^[2]

Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.

Species

Species within the genus Melanoides include:

Melanoides admirabilis (Smith, 1880)^[2]
Melanoides agglutinans (Bequaert & Clench, 1941)^[2]
Melanoides angolensis Mandahl-Barth, 1974^[2]
Melanoides anomala (Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914)^[2]
Melanoides bavayi (Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914)^[2]
Melanoides crawshayi (Smith, 1893)^[2]
Melanoides depravata (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)^[2]
Melanoides dupuisi (Spence, 1923)^[2]
Melanoides kisangani Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927^[2]
Melanoides kinshassaensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)^[2]
Melanoides langi Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927^[2]
Melanoides liebrechtsi (Dautzenberg, 1901)^[2]
Melanoides magnifica (Bourguignat, 1889)^[2]
Melanoides manguensis (Thiele, 1928)^[2]
Melanoides mweruensis (Smith, 1893)^[2]
Melanoides nodicincta (Dohrn, 1865)^[2]
Melanoides nsendweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)^[2]
Melanoides nyangweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)^[2]
Melanoides nyassana (Smith, 1877)^[2]
Melanoides pergracilis (Martens, 1897)^[2]
Melanoides polymorpha (Smith, 1877)^[2]
Melanoides psorica (Morelet, 1864)^[2]
Melanoides pupiformis (Smith, 1877)^[2]
Melanoides recticosta (Martens, 1882)^[2]
Melanoides truncatelliformis (Bourguignat, 1885)^[3]
Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) - Red-rimmed melania, type species^[2]
Melanoides turriculus (I. Lea, 1850) - fawn melania^[4]
Melanoides turritispira (Smith, 1877)^[2]
Melanoides victoriae (Dohrn, 1865)^[2]
Melanoides voltae (Thiele, 1928)^[2]
Melanoides wagenia Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927^[2]

^ Olivier (1804). Voy. Othoman. 3: 69.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0 7484 0026 5.
^ Kaunda E., Magombo Z., Kahwa D., Mailosa A., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Melanoides truncatelliformis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
^ "Melanoides". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=71532. accessed 13 May 2011.