Melanoides

Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Thiaridae. They are aquatic gastropod mollusks with an operculum.^[3]

Melanoides
live Melanoides tuberculata
Apertural view of two shells of Melanoides tuberculata
Scientific classification
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)