Melanoides admirabilis

Melanoides admirabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Melanoides
Species: M. admirabilis
Binomial name
Melanoides admirabilis
Synonyms

Melania (Sermyla) admirabilis Smith, 1880[2]

Melanoides admirabilis is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.

This species is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.

References

  1. Nicayenzi F., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Melanoides admirabilis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. 1 2 Smith E. A. (1880). "Diagnoses of new shells from Lake Tanganyika and East Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)6: 425-430. page 427.


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