Melanoides polymorpha

Melanoides polymorpha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Melanoides
Species: M. polymorpha
Binomial name
Melanoides polymorpha
Synonyms[3]
  • Melania polymorpha E. A. Smith, 1877
  • Melania tanganyicensis E. A. Smith, 1880[4]

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

This species is endemic to Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. ↑ Kaunda E., Magombo Z., Kahwa D., Mailosa A., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Melanoides polymorpha. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ↑ Smith E. A. (1877). "On the shells of Lake Nyasa, and on a few marine species from Mozambique". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 712-722. Plates 74-75. page 714, Plate 55, figure 4-10.
  3. ↑ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
  4. ↑ 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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