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]
Type species
Melanoides fasciolata Olivier, 1804
Diversity[2]
about 30 species (in Africa)
Synonyms[3]
  • Melania (Melanoides) Olivier, 1804
  • Melanoides (Melanoides) Olivier, 1804

Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae. [3]

Species

Species within the genus Melanoides include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. Olivier (1804). Voy. Othoman. 3: 69.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
  3. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2014). Melanoides Olivier, 1804. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224571 on 2014-11-20
  4. 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.
  5. "Melanoides". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. accessed 13 May 2011.

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