Melanoides | |
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live Melanoides tuberculata | |
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Apertural view of two shells of Melanoides tuberculata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Thiaridae |
Genus: |
Melanoides Olivier, 1804 |
Type species | |
Melanoides fasciolata Olivier, 1804 |
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Diversity | |
about 30 species (in Africa) | |
Synonyms | |
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clade Sorbeoconcha
Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.
Species within the genus Melanoides include: