Melanopsis trifasciata

Melanopsis trifasciata
Melanopsis trifasciata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Melanopsidae
Genus: Melanopsis
Species: M. trifasciata
Binomial name
Melanopsis trifasciata
Gray, 1843
Synonyms

Melanopsis zelandica Gould, 1843
Melanopsis strangei Reeve, 1860
Melanopsis trifasciata Suter, 1913

Melanopsis trifasciata is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Melanopsidae.

This species of snail is found only in streams and brackish estuaries in New Zealand.

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