Melanoides | |
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live Melanoides tuberculata | |
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Apertural view of two shells of Melanoides tuberculata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Thiaridae |
Subfamily: | Thiarinae |
Genus: | Melanoides Olivier, 1804 [1] |
Type species | |
Melanoides fasciolataOlivier, 1804 | |
Diversity [2] | |
about 30 species (in Africa) | |
Synonyms [3] | |
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Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Thiaridae. They are aquatic gastropod mollusks with an operculum. [3]
Species within the genus Melanoides include:
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