Melanoides polymorpha

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Melanoides polymorpha
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Melanoides
Species:
M. polymorpha
Binomial name
Melanoides polymorpha
(E. A. Smith, 1877) [2]
Synonyms [3]
  • Melania polymorpha E. A. Smith, 1877
  • Melania tanganyicensis E. A. Smith, 1880 [4]

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 Lake Malawi and is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique. It is very abundant throughout the lake in the littoral soft sediments. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Albrecht, C. (2018). "Melanoides polymorpha". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018: e.T134051244A134051258. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T134051244A134051258.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   0-7484-0026-5.
  4. 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