Melanoides nyassana

Melanoides nyassana is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.

Melanoides nyassana
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Thiaridae
Genus:	Melanoides
Species:	M. nyassana
Binomial name
Melanoides nyassana (E. A. Smith, 1877)[2]
Synonyms
Melania nyassana E. A. Smith, 1877

Melania truncatelliformis Bourguignat, 1889 may be a synonym of Melanoides nyassana.[3]

This species is endemic to Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.

References

1. Kaunda E., Magombo Z., Kahwa D., Mailosa A., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Melanoides nyassana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
2. Smith E. A. (1877). "On the shells of Lake Nyasa, and on a few marine species from Mozambique". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 712-722. Plate 75. figure 3.
3. Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.