Thiaridae
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Thiaridae | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Red-rimmed melania, Melanoides tuberculata
|
||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific classification | ||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| Genera | ||||||||||||||||||
|
See text. |
||||||||||||||||||
| Synonyms | ||||||||||||||||||
|
Melaniidae Lamarck, 1799 |
Thiaridae is a family of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea.
[edit] Distribution
This family of snails is found worldwide in the tropics.
[edit] Genera in the family Thiaridae
- Hemisinus
- Melanoides Olivier, 1804
- Plotia
- Stenomelania
- Sermyla
- Tarebia H. Adams and A. Adams, 1854
- Thiara Röding, 1798
 |
This gastropod-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
