Melanoides victoriae

Melanoides victoriae
apertural view of a shell of Melanoides victoriae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Melanoides
Species: M. victoriae
Binomial name
Melanoides victoriae
(Dohrn, 1865)[1]
Synonyms

Melania victoriae Dohrn, 1865

Melanoides victoriae is a species of a freshwater snail, a gastropod in the Thiaridae family.[2]

Distribution

The type locality is "the rapids above the Victoria Falls of the Zambezi",[1] Zambezi River at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.[2]

Distribution of Melanoides victoriae include:

Description

The width of the shell is 10 mm.[2] The height of the shell is 29 mm.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Dohrn H. (1865). "List of the land and freshwater shells of the Zambezi and Lake Nyasa, eastern tropical Africa, collected by John Kirk". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 231-234. page 234.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
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