Melanoides
Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Thiaridae. These aquatic snails have an operculum, a little lid that closes the shell. They belong to the animal kingdom, the mollusk phylum, and the gastropod class, and are part of the Caenogastropoda subclass and Cerithioidea superfamily. The genus Melanoides was described by Olivier in 1804, with Melanoides fasciolata as the type species. There are about 30 Melanoides species, mostly found in Africa.
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