Melanoides polymorpha: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Family
- Thiaridae
- Genus
- Melanoides
- Species
- Melanoides polymorpha
- Scientific Name
- Melanoides polymorpha
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Melanoides polymorpha
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 Lake Malawi and is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique. It is very abundant throughout the lake in the littoral soft sediments.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Melanoides admirabilis
- Melanoides agglutinans
- Melanoides angolensis
- Melanoides anomala
- Melanoides bavayi
- Melanoides crawshayi
- Melanoides depravata
- Melanoides dupuisii
- Melanoides kainarensis
- Melanoides kinshassaensis
- Melanoides kisangani
- Melanoides langi
- Melanoides liebrechtsi
- Melanoides magnifica
- Melanoides manguensis
- Melanoides mweruensis
- Melanoides nodicincta
- Melanoides nsendweensis
- Melanoides nyangweensis
- Melanoides nyassana
- Melanoides peregrina
- Melanoides pergracilis
- Melanoides polymorpha
- Melanoides psorica
- Melanoides pupiformis
- Melanoides recticosta
- Melanoides shahdaraensis
- Melanoides tuberculata
- Melanoides turritispira
- Melanoides victoriae
- Melanoides voltae
- Melanoides wagenia