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Melanopsis
Sign in to saveMelanopsis is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Melanopsidae.
Species
Genus
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCaenogastropoda incertae sedis
- FamilyMelanopsidae
Habitatbrackish, freshwater
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 582
- With media
- 33
- Family
- Melanopsidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- Spain, Romania, Algeria, Morocco, Austria, Israel, Lebanon, Tunisia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Melanopsidae
- Image
- Melanopsis buccinoidea 01.JPG
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- taxon name
- Melanopsis
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- Melanopsis parreyssii
- Commons category
- Melanopsis
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Melanopsis is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Melanopsidae.
The genus first appeared in the Cretaceous.
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