Melanoides nyassana | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Family: | Thiaridae |
Genus: | Melanoides |
Species: | M. nyassana
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Binomial name | |
Melanoides nyassana (E. A. Smith, 1877)[2]
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Synonyms | |
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Melanoides nyassana is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.
It is endemic to Lake Malawi, where it is widespread.[1]
Melania truncatelliformis Bourguignat, 1889 may be a synonym of Melanoides nyassana.[3] The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species treats the species as a synonym of Melanoides polymorpha.[1]