Melanoides
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| Melanoides | |
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| live Melanoides tuberculata | |
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| 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[2] | |
| about 30 species (in Africa) | |
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]
References
- ↑ Olivier (1804). Voy. Othoman. 3: 69.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 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. accessed 13 May 2011.
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