Melanoides
Encyclopedia
Melanoides is a genus
of freshwater snail
with an operculum
, an aquatic
gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
with an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...
, an aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae
Thiaridae
Thiaridae, common name thiarids, is a family of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea....
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Species
Species within the genus Melanoides include:- Melanoides admirabilisMelanoides admirabilisMelanoides admirabilis is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae....
(Smith, 1880) - Melanoides agglutinans (Bequaert & Clench, 1941)
- Melanoides angolensis Mandahl-Barth, 1974
- Melanoides anomala (Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914)
- Melanoides bavayi (Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914)
- Melanoides crawshayi (Smith, 1893)
- Melanoides depravata (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)
- Melanoides dupuisi (Spence, 1923)
- Melanoides kisangani Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
- Melanoides kinshassaensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)
- Melanoides langi Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
- Melanoides liebrechtsi (Dautzenberg, 1901)
- Melanoides magnifica (Bourguignat, 1889)
- Melanoides manguensis (Thiele, 1928)
- Melanoides mweruensis (Smith, 1893)
- Melanoides nodicinctaMelanoides nodicinctaMelanoides nodicincta is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae....
(Dohrn, 1865) - Melanoides nsendweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)
- Melanoides nyangweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)
- Melanoides nyassanaMelanoides nyassanaMelanoides 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....
(Smith, 1877) - Melanoides pergracilisMelanoides pergracilisMelanoides pergracilis is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.This species is endemic to Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes....
(Martens, 1897) - Melanoides polymorphaMelanoides polymorphaMelanoides polymorpha is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.This species is endemic to Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss....
(Smith, 1877) - Melanoides psorica (Morelet, 1864)
- Melanoides pupiformisMelanoides pupiformisMelanoides pupiformis is a species of freshwater snail, gastropod in the Thiaridae family. It is endemic to Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss....
(Smith, 1877) - Melanoides recticosta (Martens, 1882)
- Melanoides truncatelliformisMelanoides truncatelliformisMelanoides truncatelliformis is a species of gastropod in the Thiaridae family. It is endemic to Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes....
(Bourguignat, 1885) - Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) - Red-rimmed melania, type species
- Melanoides turriculus (I. Lea, 1850) - fawn melania
- Melanoides turritispiraMelanoides turritispiraMelanoides turritispira is a species of gastropod in the Thiaridae family. It is endemic to Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss.Original description by Edgar Albert Smith from 1877 describes a juvenile snail....
(Smith, 1877) - Melanoides victoriaeMelanoides victoriaeMelanoides victoriae is a species of a freshwater snail, a gastropod in the Thiaridae family.- Distribution :The type locality is "the rapids above the Victoria Falls of the Zambezi", Zambezi River at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe....
(Dohrn, 1865) - Melanoides voltae (Thiele, 1928)
- Melanoides wagenia Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927