Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Thiarinae of the family Thiaridae.[3]
| Melanoides | |
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| live Melanoides tuberculata | |
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| Apertural view of two shells of Melanoides tuberculata | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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] | |
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Species edit
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)
References edit
- ^ Olivier (1804). Voy. Othoman. 3: 69.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2014). Melanoides Olivier, 1804. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224571 on 2014-11-20
- ^ "Melanoides jugicostis (Hanley & Theobald, 1876)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ^ Kaunda E., Magombo Z., Kahwa D., Mailosa A., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Melanoides truncatelliformis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ^ "Melanoides". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. accessed 13 May 2011.
External links edit
- Olivier, G.A. (1804). Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse, fair par ordre du Gouvernement, pendant les six premières années de la République. Tome second, ii pp. + 466 pp. + Errata (1 pp.); Atlas, 2d livraison: vii pp., pl. 18-32. Paris (H. Agasse)
- 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).
- Brot, A. (1870). Catalogue of the recent species of the family Melanidae American Journal of Conchology. 6: 271-325,
- Bourguignat, J.-R. (1889). Mélanidées du lac Nyassa suivies d'un aperçu comparatif sur la faune malacologique de ce lac avec celle du grand lac Tanganika. Bulletins de la Société malacologique de France. 6: 1-66, pl. 1-2. (± December) Paris
- Roman F. (1912 ("1910")). Faune saumâtre du Sannoisien du Gard. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. ser. 4, 10: 927-955, pls 22-24
- Glaubrecht M., Brinkmann N. & Pöppe J. (2009). Diversity and disparity ‘down under': Systematics, biogeography and reproductive modes of the ‘marsupial' freshwater Thiaridae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea) in Australia. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 85(2): 199-275.
- 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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