| Melanoides
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| live Melanoides tuberculata
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| Apertural view of two shells of Melanoides tuberculata
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Mollusca
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| Class:
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Gastropoda
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| Subclass:
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Caenogastropoda
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| Order:
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incertae sedis
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| Superfamily:
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Cerithioidea
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| Family:
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Thiaridae
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| Subfamily:
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Thiarinae
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| Genus:
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Melanoides
Olivier, 1804
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| Type species
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Melanoides fasciolata Olivier, 1804
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| Diversity
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| about 30 species (in Africa)
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| Synonyms
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- 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)
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Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Thiaridae. They are aquatic gastropod mollusks with an operculum.