Melanoides Olivier 1804 (snail)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Thiaridae

Alternative spellings: Melania (Melanoides), Thiara (Melanoides)

Parent taxon: Thiarinae according to T. Kase 1984

See also Clark 1938, Glibert 1949, Kiessling 2003, Ladd 1972 and Oostingh 1935

Sister taxa: Brotia, Coptostylus, Cornetia, Fijidoma, Tarebia, Thiara

Subtaxa: Melanoides (Melanoides) Melanoides curvicosta Melanoides tuberculata Melanoides vidali Thiara (Melanoides) calafi

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (2 collections), Kenya (3), Mauritius (1), Niger (2), Sudan (1)

• Pliocene of Indonesia (14), Spain (2), Tanzania (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1)

• Miocene of Indonesia (2), Italy (9), Kenya (1), Uganda (1)

• Oligocene of Belgium (5), Germany (3), Japan (1)

• Eocene of Algeria (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (1), Spain (7), Turkey (1), United States (2: California, Washington)

• Cretaceous of Japan (2), Spain (1)

Total: 65 collections including 70 occurrences

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