Melanoides

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

Melanoides
live Melanoides tuberculata
Apertural view of two shells of Melanoides tuberculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]
  • 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)

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