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Genus of gastropods
Melanoides
live
Melanoides tuberculata
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 fasciolata Olivier, 1804
Diversity
[2]
about 30 species (in Africa)
Synonyms
[3]
Eumelania Rovereto, 1899 (invalid: unnecessary nom. nov....)
Faunus (Pirenopsis) Brot, 1879
Horea Bourguignat, 1888
Melania (Eumelania) Rovereto, 1899 (invalid: unnecessary nom. nov. pro Striatella Brot, 1870 , by Rovereto treated as a junior homonym of Striatella Agardh, 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
Micronyassia Bourguignat, 1889
Nyassella Bourguignat, 1889
Nyassia Bourguignat, 1889
Nyassomelania Bourguignat, 1889
Pallarya Hesse, 1916 (invalid: unnecessary nom. nov. pro Striatella Brot, 1870 , by Hesse treated as a junior homonym of Striatella Agardh, 1832 , which is a diatom, and thus does not compete in homonymy)
Pirenopsis Brot, 1879
Striatella Brot, 187 0 (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]
Species within the genus Melanoides include:
Melanoides admirabilis (Smith, 1880)
[2]
Melanoides agglutinans (Bequaert & Clench, 1941)
[2]
Melanoides angolensis Mandahl-Barth, 1974
[2]
Melanoides anomala (Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914)
[2]
†
Melanoides apirospira (Fontannes, 1884)
†
Melanoides apscheronica (Andrusov, 1923)
†
Melanoides aspera Youluo, 1978
†
Melanoides aspericostata Y.-T. Li, 1987
Melanoides bavayi (Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914)
[2]
†
Melanoides castrepiscopalensis (Almera, 1894)
†
Melanoides catalaunica (Almera & Bofill y Poch, 1895)
†
Melanoides conica Macaleț, 2002
Melanoides crawshayi (Smith, 1893)
[2]
†
Melanoides cretaceus Yen, 1966
†
Melanoides curvicosta (Deshayes in Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire et al., 1832)
Melanoides depravata (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)
[2]
†
Melanoides devestita Stache, 1889
†
Melanoides diestopleura (Fontannes, 1884)
Melanoides dupuisi (Spence, 1923)
[2]
Melanoides elisabethkernae Thach & F. Huber, 2021
Melanoides enomotoi Pilsbry, 1924
†
Melanoides ettingshauseni (Dainelli, 1901)
Melanoides fasciata (J. Sowerby, 1819)
†
Melanoides falcicostata (Hofmann, 1870)
Melanoides fasciolata Olivier, 1804 : synonym of Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
†
Melanoides fettkei (Weaver, 1912)
†
Melanoides floristriata Youluo, 1978
†
Melanoides florivaricosa Youluo, 1978
†
Melanoides furuhjelmi (C. Mayer, 1869)
†
Melanoides gilletae Rey, 1974
†
Melanoides glypta Youluo, 1978
†
Melanoides heberti (Hermite, 1879) (temporary name, junior primary homonym of M. heberti Hantken, 1878; no replacement name or synonym available)
Melanoides hoekzemai van Benthem Jutting, 1963
†
Melanoides jeanteti Rey, 1967
Melanoides jugicostis (Hanley & Theobald, 1876)
[4]
†
Melanoides juliani (Roman, 1912)
†
Melanoides kainarensis Starobogatov & Izzatullaev, 1980
Melanoides kisangani Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
[2]
Melanoides kinshassaensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)
[2]
Melanoides lamberti (Crosse, 1869)
Melanoides langi Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
[2]
Melanoides laxa (Mousson, 1869)
Melanoides liebrechtsi (Dautzenberg, 1901)
[2]
†
Melanoides lusitanica (Roman, 1907)
†
Melanoides macra Y.-T. Li, 1987
Melanoides magnifica (Bourguignat, 1889)
[2]
Melanoides manguensis (Thiele, 1928)
[2]
†
Melanoides martinsoni Zharnyl'skaya, 1965
Melanoides mweruensis (Smith, 1893)
[2]
Melanoides nodicincta (Dohrn, 1865)
[2]
Melanoides nsendweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)
[2]
Melanoides nyangweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)
[2]
Melanoides nyassana (Smith, 1877)
[2]
†
Melanoides otatumei Suzuki, 1944
†
Melanoides pachecoi (Vidal, 1917)
†
Melanoides pamirica Lindholm, 1930
†
Melanoides pectinicostata Youluo, 1978
†
Melanoides peregrina (Mousson, 1869)
Melanoides pergracilis (Martens, 1897)
[2]
Melanoides polymorpha (Smith, 1877)
[2]
†
Melanoides procurvirostra Kókay, 2006
Melanoides psorica (Morelet, 1864)
[2]
Melanoides pupiformis (Smith, 1877)
[2]
Melanoides recticosta (Martens, 1882)
[2]
†
Melanoides rwebishengoensis Van Damme & Pickford, 2003
†
Melanoides sepulchralis (Fontannes, 1884)
Melanoides shahdaraensis Starobogatov & Izzatullaev, 1980
†
Melanoides solitaria Stache, 1889
†
Melanoides sphecodes (Fontannes, 1884)
†
Melanoides striata Y.-T. Li, 1987
Melanoides swinhoei A. Adams, 1870
†
Melanoides tourainei Rey, 1974
†
Melanoides tournoueri (Fuchs, 1877)
Melanoides truncatelliformis (Bourguignat, 1885)
[5]
Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) -
Red-rimmed melania
†
Melanoides tudorae Stache, 1889
†
Melanoides tuozhuangensis Youluo, 1978
Melanoides turriculus (I. Lea, 1850) - fawn melania
[6]
Melanoides turritispira (Smith, 1877)
[2]
†
Melanoides umbraculiformis Youluo, 1978
†
Melanoides vandenbosschei Van Damme & Pickford, 2003
†
Melanoides verniersi Van Damme & Pickford, 2003
Melanoides victoriae (Dohrn, 1865)
[2]
†
Melanoides vidali (Cossmann, 1898)
Melanoides voltae (Thiele, 1928)
[2]
Melanoides wagenia Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
[2]
†
Melanoides winkleri (Mayer, 1861)
†
Melanoides wollebeni Perrilliat & Vega in Perrilliat et al., 2008
†
Melanoides yolandae Perrilliat & Vega in Perrilliat et al., 2008
Species brought into synonymy
Melanoides abchasica (Seninski, 1905): synonym of †
Tinnyea abchasica (Seninski, 1905)
Melanoides conicus Macaleț, 2002: synonym of †
Melanoides conica Macaleț, 2002
Melanoides riqueti (Grateloup, 1840): synonym of
Sermyla riqueti ( Grateloup, 1840)
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Brot, A. (1874-1879). Die Melaniaceen (Melanidae) in Abbildungen der Natur mit Beschreibungen. In: Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Ersten Bandes, vierundzwanzigste Abtheilung. (1) 24 (229): 1-32, pls. 1-6 (1874); (1) 24 (235): 33-80, pls. 7-12 (1875); (1) 24 (244): 81-128, pls. 13-18 (1875); (1) 24 (249): 129-192, pls. 19-24 (1876); (1) 24 (259): 193-272, pls. 25-30 (1877); (1) 24 (264): 273-352, pls. 31-36 (1877); (1) 24 (271): 353-400, pls. 37-42 (1878); (1) 24 (280): 401-456, pls. 43-48 (1879); (1) 24 (283): 457-488, pl. 49 (1879). Nürnberg (Bauer & Raspe).
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Annandale, T. N. & Prashad, B. (1919). The Mollusca of the inland waters of Baluchistan and of Seistan, with a note on the liver-fluke of sheep in Seistan, by S. W. Kemp. Records of the Indian Museum. 18: 17-63
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