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 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.
^ ^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.

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[1] Olivier (1804). Voy. Othoman. 3: 69.

[Brown_1994-2] ^ ^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.

[WoRMS-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

[GBIF-4] "Melanoides jugicostis (Hanley & Theobald, 1876)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 15 October 2021.

[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] "Melanoides". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. accessed 13 May 2011.

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