Melanoides polymorpha
Species of gastropod
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Melanoides polymorpha is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.
| Melanoides polymorpha | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Thiaridae |
| Genus: | Melanoides |
| Species: | M. polymorpha |
| Binomial name | |
| Melanoides polymorpha (E. A. Smith, 1877)[2] | |
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This species is endemic to Lake Malawi and is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique. It is very abundant throughout the lake in the littoral soft sediments.[1]
