Melanoides

Melanoides
	live Melanoides tuberculata
	Apertural view of two shells of Melanoides tuberculata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Thiaridae
Subfamily:	Thiarinae
Genus:	Melanoides; Olivier, 1804
Type species
	Melanoides fasciolata Olivier, 1804;
Diversity
	about 30 species (in Africa)
Synonyms
	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);

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

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