- Melanoides pergracilis
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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
- ^ 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.
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