Melanoides nyassana
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Melanoides nyassana is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Thiaridae.
It is endemic to Lake Malawi, where it is widespread.[1]
Melania truncatelliformis Bourguignat, 1889 may be a synonym of Melanoides nyassana.[2] The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species treats the species as a synonym of Melanoides polymorpha.[1]
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- Fauna of Lake Malawi
- Invertebrates of Malawi
- Invertebrates of Mozambique
- Molluscs of Tanzania
- Freshwater snails of Africa
- Thiaridae
- Gastropods described in 1877
- Taxa named by Edgar Albert Smith
- Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
- Taxonomy articles created by Polbot