Melanoides

Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Thiaridae. They are aquatic gastropod mollusks with an operculum.

==Species== Species within the genus Melanoides include: Melanoides admirabilis (Smith, 1880) Melanoides agglutinans (Bequaert & Clench, 1941) Melanoides angolensis Mandahl-Barth, 1974 Melanoides anomala (Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914) † Melanoides apirospira (Fontannes, 1884) † Melanoides apscheronica (Andrusov, 1923) † Melanoides aspera Youluo, 1978 † Melanoides aspericostata Y.-T. Li, 1987 Melanoides bavayi (Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914) † Melanoides castrepiscopalensis (Almera, 1894) † Melanoides catalaunica (Almera & Bofill y Poch, 1895) † Melanoides conica Macaleț, 2002 Melanoides crawshayi (Smith, 1893) † Melanoides cretaceus Yen, 1966 † Melanoides curvicosta (Deshayes in Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire et al., 1832) Melanoides depravata (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900) † Melanoides devestita Stache, 1889 † Melanoides diestopleura (Fontannes, 1884) Melanoides dupuisi (Spence, 1923) Melanoides elisabethkernae Thach & F. Huber, 2021 Melanoides enomotoi Pilsbry, 1924 † Melanoides ettingshauseni (Dainelli, 1901) Melanoides fasciata (J. Sowerby, 1819) † Melanoides falcicostata (Hofmann, 1870) Melanoides fasciolata Olivier, 1804: synonym of Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) † Melanoides fettkei (Weaver, 1912) † Melanoides floristriata Youluo, 1978 † Melanoides florivaricosa Youluo, 1978 † Melanoides furuhjelmi (C. Mayer, 1869) † Melanoides gilletae Rey, 1974 † Melanoides glypta Youluo, 1978 † Melanoides heberti (Hermite, 1879) (temporary name, junior primary homonym of M. heberti Hantken, 1878; no replacement name or synonym available) Melanoides hoekzemai van Benthem Jutting, 1963 † Melanoides jeanteti Rey, 1967 Melanoides jugicostis (Hanley & Theobald, 1876) † Melanoides juliani (Roman, 1912) †Melanoides kainarensis Starobogatov & Izzatullaev, 1980 Melanoides kisangani Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927 Melanoides kinshassaensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900) Melanoides lamberti (Crosse, 1869) Melanoides langi Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927 Melanoides laxa (Mousson, 1869) Melanoides liebrechtsi (Dautzenberg, 1901) † Melanoides lusitanica (Roman, 1907) † Melanoides macra Y.-T. Li, 1987 Melanoides magnifica (Bourguignat, 1889) Melanoides manguensis (Thiele, 1928) † Melanoides martinsoni Zharnyl'skaya, 1965 Melanoides mweruensis (Smith, 1893) Melanoides nodicincta (Dohrn, 1865) Melanoides nsendweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900) Melanoides nyangweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900) Melanoides nyassana (Smith, 1877) † Melanoides otatumei Suzuki, 1944 † Melanoides pachecoi (Vidal, 1917) † Melanoides pamirica Lindholm, 1930 † Melanoides pectinicostata Youluo, 1978 † Melanoides peregrina (Mousson, 1869) Melanoides pergracilis (Martens, 1897) Melanoides polymorpha (Smith, 1877) † Melanoides procurvirostra Kókay, 2006 Melanoides psorica (Morelet, 1864) Melanoides pupiformis (Smith, 1877) Melanoides recticosta (Martens, 1882) † Melanoides rwebishengoensis Van Damme & Pickford, 2003 † Melanoides sepulchralis (Fontannes, 1884) Melanoides shahdaraensis Starobogatov & Izzatullaev, 1980 † Melanoides solitaria Stache, 1889 † Melanoides sphecodes (Fontannes, 1884) † Melanoides striata Y.-T. Li, 1987 Melanoides swinhoei A. Adams, 1870 † Melanoides tourainei Rey, 1974 † Melanoides tournoueri (Fuchs, 1877) Melanoides truncatelliformis (Bourguignat, 1885) Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) - Red-rimmed melania † Melanoides tudorae Stache, 1889 † Melanoides tuozhuangensis Youluo, 1978 Melanoides turriculus (I. Lea, 1850) - fawn melania Melanoides turritispira (Smith, 1877) † Melanoides umbraculiformis Youluo, 1978 † Melanoides vandenbosschei Van Damme & Pickford, 2003 † Melanoides verniersi Van Damme & Pickford, 2003 Melanoides victoriae (Dohrn, 1865) † Melanoides vidali (Cossmann, 1898) Melanoides voltae (Thiele, 1928) Melanoides wagenia Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927 † Melanoides winkleri (Mayer, 1861) † Melanoides wollebeni Perrilliat & Vega in Perrilliat et al., 2008 † Melanoides yolandae Perrilliat & Vega in Perrilliat et al., 2008 Species brought into synonymy: Melanoides abchasica (Seninski, 1905): synonym of † Tinnyea abchasica (Seninski, 1905) Melanoides conicus Macaleț, 2002: synonym of † Melanoides conica Macaleț, 2002 Melanoides riqueti (Grateloup, 1840): synonym of Sermyla riqueti (Grateloup, 1840)