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

Species

Species within the genus Melanoides include:

• Melanoides admirabilis (Smith, 1880)

• Melanoides agglutinans (Bequaert & Clench, 1941)

• Melanoides angolensis Mandahl-Barth, 1974

• Melanoides anomala (Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914)

• † Melanoides apirospira (Fontannes, 1884)

• † Melanoides apscheronica (Andrusov, 1923)

• † Melanoides aspera Youluo, 1978

• † Melanoides aspericostata Y.-T. Li, 1987

• Melanoides bavayi (Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914)

• † Melanoides castrepiscopalensis (Almera, 1894)

• † Melanoides catalaunica (Almera & Bofill y Poch, 1895)

• † Melanoides conica Macaleț, 2002

• Melanoides crawshayi (Smith, 1893)

• † Melanoides cretaceus Yen, 1966

• † Melanoides curvicosta (Deshayes in Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire et al., 1832)

• Melanoides depravata (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)

• † Melanoides devestita Stache, 1889

• † Melanoides diestopleura (Fontannes, 1884)

• Melanoides dupuisi (Spence, 1923)

• 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)

• † Melanoides juliani (Roman, 1912)

• †Melanoides kainarensis Starobogatov & Izzatullaev, 1980

• Melanoides kisangani Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

• Melanoides kinshassaensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)

• Melanoides lamberti (Crosse, 1869)

• Melanoides langi Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

• Melanoides laxa (Mousson, 1869)

• Melanoides liebrechtsi (Dautzenberg, 1901)

• † Melanoides lusitanica (Roman, 1907)

• † Melanoides macra Y.-T. Li, 1987

• Melanoides magnifica (Bourguignat, 1889)

• Melanoides manguensis (Thiele, 1928)

• † Melanoides martinsoni Zharnyl'skaya, 1965

• Melanoides mweruensis (Smith, 1893)

• Melanoides nodicincta (Dohrn, 1865)

• Melanoides nsendweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)

• Melanoides nyangweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)

• Melanoides nyassana (Smith, 1877)

• † Melanoides otatumei Suzuki, 1944

• † Melanoides pachecoi (Vidal, 1917)

• † Melanoides pamirica Lindholm, 1930

• † Melanoides pectinicostata Youluo, 1978

• † Melanoides peregrina (Mousson, 1869)

• Melanoides pergracilis (Martens, 1897)

• Melanoides polymorpha (Smith, 1877)

• † Melanoides procurvirostra Kókay, 2006

• Melanoides psorica (Morelet, 1864)

• Melanoides pupiformis (Smith, 1877)

• Melanoides recticosta (Martens, 1882)

• † 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)

• Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) - Red-rimmed melania

• † Melanoides tudorae Stache, 1889

• † Melanoides tuozhuangensis Youluo, 1978

• Melanoides turriculus (I. Lea, 1850) - fawn melania

• Melanoides turritispira (Smith, 1877)

• † Melanoides umbraculiformis Youluo, 1978

• † Melanoides vandenbosschei Van Damme & Pickford, 2003

• † Melanoides verniersi Van Damme & Pickford, 2003

• Melanoides victoriae (Dohrn, 1865)

• † Melanoides vidali (Cossmann, 1898)

• Melanoides voltae (Thiele, 1928)

• Melanoides wagenia Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

• † 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

External links

• Olivier, G.A. (1804). Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse, fair par ordre du Gouvernement, pendant les six premières années de la République. Tome second, ii pp. + 466 pp. + Errata (1 pp.); Atlas, 2d livraison: vii pp., pl. 18-32. Paris (H. Agasse)

• Brot, A. (1874-1879). Die Melaniaceen (Melanidae) in Abbildungen der Natur mit Beschreibungen. In: Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Ersten Bandes, vierundzwanzigste Abtheilung. (1) 24 (229): 1-32, pls. 1-6 (1874); (1) 24 (235): 33-80, pls. 7-12 (1875); (1) 24 (244): 81-128, pls. 13-18 (1875); (1) 24 (249): 129-192, pls. 19-24 (1876); (1) 24 (259): 193-272, pls. 25-30 (1877); (1) 24 (264): 273-352, pls. 31-36 (1877); (1) 24 (271): 353-400, pls. 37-42 (1878); (1) 24 (280): 401-456, pls. 43-48 (1879); (1) 24 (283): 457-488, pl. 49 (1879). Nürnberg (Bauer & Raspe).

• Brot, A. (1870). Catalogue of the recent species of the family Melanidae American Journal of Conchology. 6: 271-325,

• Bourguignat, J.-R. (1889). Mélanidées du lac Nyassa suivies d'un aperçu comparatif sur la faune malacologique de ce lac avec celle du grand lac Tanganika. Bulletins de la Société malacologique de France. 6: 1-66, pl. 1-2. (± December) Paris

• Roman F. (1912 ("1910")). Faune saumâtre du Sannoisien du Gard. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. ser. 4, 10: 927-955, pls 22-24

• Glaubrecht M., Brinkmann N. & Pöppe J. (2009). Diversity and disparity ‘down under': Systematics, biogeography and reproductive modes of the ‘marsupial' freshwater Thiaridae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea) in Australia. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 85(2): 199-275.

• Annandale, T. N. & Prashad, B. (1919). The Mollusca of the inland waters of Baluchistan and of Seistan, with a note on the liver-fluke of sheep in Seistan, by S. W. Kemp. Records of the Indian Museum. 18: 17-63