Melanoides turritispira: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Family
- Thiaridae
- Genus
- Melanoides
- Species
- Melanoides turritispira
- Scientific Name
- Melanoides turritispira
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Melanoides turritispira
Melanoides turritispira is a species of gastropod in the Thiaridae family. It is endemic to Lake Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Original description by Edgar Albert Smith from 1877 describes a juvenile snail.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species treats the species as a synonym of Melanoides polymorpha.
...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