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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Caenogastropoda
Superfamilia Incertae sedis: Cerithioidea

Familia: Thiaridae
Genus: Melanoides
Species: M. admirabilis – M. amabilis – M. anomala – M. imitatrix – M. magnifica – M. mweruensis – M. nodicincta – M. nyassana – M. polymorpha – M. pubiformis – M. simonsi – M. truncatelliformis – M. tuberculata – M. turritispira – M. virgulata – M. woodwardi –
Name

Melanoides Olivier, 1804
Vernacular names
русский: Мелания

Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Thiarinae of the family Thiaridae.[3]
Species

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

Olivier (1804). Voy. Othoman. 3: 69.
Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
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.

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