Melanoides pergracilis

Melanoides pergracilis
Melanoides pergracilis
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Melanoides
Species: M. pergracilis
Binomial name
Melanoides pergracilis
(Von Martens, 1897)

Melanoides 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.

References

  1. ^ Kaunda E., Magombo Z., Kahwa D., Mailosa A., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Melanoides pergracilis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.