- Melanoides polymorpha
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Melanoides polymorpha Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea Family: Thiaridae Genus: Melanoides Species: M. polymorpha Binomial name Melanoides polymorpha
(E. A. Smith, 1877)[2]Synonyms[4] - Melania polymorpha E. A. Smith, 1877
- Melania tanganyicensis E. A. Smith, 1880[3]
Melanoides 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.
References
- ^ Kaunda E., Magombo Z., Kahwa D., Mailosa A., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Melanoides polymorpha. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ^ Smith E. A. (1877). "On the shells of Lake Nyasa, and on a few marine species from Mozambique". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 712-722. Plates 74-75. page 714, Plate 55, figure 4-10.
- ^ Smith E. A. (1880). "Diagnoses of new shells from Lake Tanganyika and East Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)6: 425-430. page 427
- ^ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0 7484 0026 5.
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