| 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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