Melanoides

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Melanoides
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Apertural view of two shells of Melanoides tuberculata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Melanoides
Olivier, 1804 [1]
Type species
Melanoides fasciolataOlivier, 1804
Diversity [2]
about 30 species (in Africa)
Synonyms [3]
  • EumelaniaRovereto, 1899 (invalid: unnecessary nom. nov....)
  • Faunus (Pirenopsis)Brot, 1879
  • HoreaBourguignat, 1888
  • Melania (Eumelania)Rovereto, 1899 (invalid: unnecessary nom. nov. pro StriatellaBrot, 1870, by Rovereto treated as a junior homonym of StriatellaAgardh, 1832, which is a diatom and thus does not compete in homonymy)
  • Melania (Melanoides)Olivier, 1804
  • Melania (Nyassella)Bourguignat, 1889
  • Melania (Nyassia)Bourguignat, 1889
  • Melania (Striatella)Brot, 1870 (junior synonym)
  • Melanoides (Jacquotia)Roman, 1912 · alternate representation
  • Melanoides (Melanoides)Olivier, 1804
  • MicronyassiaBourguignat, 1889
  • NyassellaBourguignat, 1889
  • NyassiaBourguignat, 1889
  • Nyassomelania Bourguignat, 1889
  • PallaryaHesse, 1916 (invalid: unnecessary nom. nov. pro StriatellaBrot, 1870, by Hesse treated as a junior homonym of StriatellaAgardh, 1832, which is a diatom, and thus does not compete in homonymy)
  • PirenopsisBrot, 1879
  • StriatellaBrot, 1870 (invalid: objective junior synonym)
  • Thiara (Melanoides)Olivier, 1804 (subgenus rank not accepted)

Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Thiarinae of the family Thiaridae. [3]

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Species

Species within the genus Melanoides include:

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. Olivier (1804). Voy. Othoman.3: 69.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   0-7484-0026-5.
  3. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2014). Melanoides Olivier, 1804. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224571 on 2014-11-20
  4. "Melanoides jugicostis (Hanley & Theobald, 1876)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  5. Kaunda E., Magombo Z., Kahwa D., Mailosa A., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Melanoides truncatelliformis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  6. "Melanoides". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. accessed 13 May 2011.

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