Melanoides
| 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 |
| (unranked): |
clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Thiaridae |
| Genus: |
Melanoides Olivier, 1804 |
| Type species | |
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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:
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