Melanoides polymorpha is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Family: | Thiaridae |
Genus: | Melanoides |
Species: | M. polymorpha
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Binomial name | |
Melanoides polymorpha (E. A. Smith, 1877)[2]
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This species is endemic to Lake Malawi and is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique. It is very abundant throughout the lake in the littoral soft sediments.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Albrecht, C. (2018). "Melanoides polymorpha". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T134051244A134051258. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T134051244A134051258.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.