Melanoides

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
Type species
Melanoides fasciolata Olivier, 1804
Diversity
about 30 species (in Africa)
Synonyms
  • 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, 1870 (invalid: objective junior synonym)
  • Thiara (Melanoides) Olivier, 1804 (subgenus rank not accepted)

Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Thiaridae. They are aquatic gastropod mollusks with an operculum.

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