- Melanoides
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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]
References
- ^ 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.
External links
- Melanoides at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.
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