Melanoides

<i>Melanoides</i>

Melanoides

Genus of gastropods

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

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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

  1. [1]
    Olivier (1804). Voy. Othoman. 3: 69.
  2. [2]
    Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
  3. [3]
    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
  4. [4]
    "Melanoides jugicostis (Hanley & Theobald, 1876)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  5. [5]
    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.
  6. [6]
    "Melanoides". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. accessed 13 May 2011.

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