# Melanoides

Melanoides is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Thiaridae. They are aquatic gastropod mollusks with an operculum.

## Species

Species within the genus Melanoides include:
* Melanoides admirabilis (Smith, 1880)
* Melanoides agglutinans (Bequaert & Clench, 1941)
* Melanoides angolensis Mandahl-Barth, 1974
* Melanoides anomala (Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914)
* † Melanoides apirospira (Fontannes, 1884)
* † Melanoides apscheronica (Andrusov, 1923)
* † Melanoides aspera Youluo, 1978
* † Melanoides aspericostata Y.-T. Li, 1987
* Melanoides bavayi (Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914)
* † Melanoides castrepiscopalensis (Almera, 1894)
* † Melanoides catalaunica (Almera & Bofill y Poch, 1895)
* † Melanoides conica Macaleț, 2002
* Melanoides crawshayi (Smith, 1893)
* † Melanoides cretaceus Yen, 1966
* † Melanoides curvicosta (Deshayes in Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire et al., 1832)
* Melanoides depravata (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)
* † Melanoides devestita Stache, 1889
* † Melanoides diestopleura (Fontannes, 1884)
* Melanoides dupuisi (Spence, 1923)
* Melanoides elisabethkernae Thach & F. Huber, 2021
* Melanoides enomotoi Pilsbry, 1924
* † Melanoides ettingshauseni (Dainelli, 1901)
* Melanoides fasciata (J. Sowerby, 1819)
* † Melanoides falcicostata (Hofmann, 1870)
* Melanoides fasciolata Olivier, 1804: synonym of Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* † Melanoides fettkei (Weaver, 1912)
* † Melanoides floristriata Youluo, 1978
* † Melanoides florivaricosa Youluo, 1978
* † Melanoides furuhjelmi (C. Mayer, 1869)
* † Melanoides gilletae Rey, 1974
* † Melanoides glypta Youluo, 1978
* † Melanoides heberti (Hermite, 1879) (temporary name, junior primary homonym of M. heberti Hantken, 1878; no replacement name or synonym available)
* Melanoides hoekzemai van Benthem Jutting, 1963
* † Melanoides jeanteti Rey, 1967
* Melanoides jugicostis (Hanley & Theobald, 1876)
* † Melanoides juliani (Roman, 1912)
* †Melanoides kainarensis Starobogatov & Izzatullaev, 1980
* Melanoides kisangani Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
* Melanoides kinshassaensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)
* Melanoides lamberti (Crosse, 1869)
* Melanoides langi Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
* Melanoides laxa (Mousson, 1869)
* Melanoides liebrechtsi (Dautzenberg, 1901)
* † Melanoides lusitanica (Roman, 1907)
* † Melanoides macra Y.-T. Li, 1987
* Melanoides magnifica (Bourguignat, 1889)
* Melanoides manguensis (Thiele, 1928)
* † Melanoides martinsoni Zharnyl'skaya, 1965
* Melanoides mweruensis (Smith, 1893)
* Melanoides nodicincta (Dohrn, 1865)
* Melanoides nsendweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)
* Melanoides nyangweensis (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900)
* Melanoides nyassana (Smith, 1877)
* † Melanoides otatumei Suzuki, 1944
* † Melanoides pachecoi (Vidal, 1917)
* † Melanoides pamirica Lindholm, 1930
* † Melanoides pectinicostata Youluo, 1978
* † Melanoides peregrina (Mousson, 1869)
* Melanoides pergracilis (Martens, 1897)
* Melanoides polymorpha (Smith, 1877)
* † Melanoides procurvirostra Kókay, 2006
* Melanoides psorica (Morelet, 1864)
* Melanoides pupiformis (Smith, 1877)
* Melanoides recticosta (Martens, 1882)
* † Melanoides rwebishengoensis Van Damme & Pickford, 2003
* † Melanoides sepulchralis (Fontannes, 1884)
* Melanoides shahdaraensis Starobogatov & Izzatullaev, 1980
* † Melanoides solitaria Stache, 1889
* † Melanoides sphecodes (Fontannes, 1884)
* † Melanoides striata Y.-T. Li, 1987
* Melanoides swinhoei A. Adams, 1870
* † Melanoides tourainei Rey, 1974
* † Melanoides tournoueri (Fuchs, 1877)
* Melanoides truncatelliformis (Bourguignat, 1885)
* Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) - Red-rimmed melania
* † Melanoides tudorae Stache, 1889
* † Melanoides tuozhuangensis Youluo, 1978
* Melanoides turriculus (I. Lea, 1850) - fawn melania
* Melanoides turritispira (Smith, 1877)
* † Melanoides umbraculiformis Youluo, 1978
* † Melanoides vandenbosschei Van Damme & Pickford, 2003
* † Melanoides verniersi Van Damme & Pickford, 2003
* Melanoides victoriae (Dohrn, 1865)
* † Melanoides vidali (Cossmann, 1898)
* Melanoides voltae (Thiele, 1928)
* Melanoides wagenia Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
* † Melanoides winkleri (Mayer, 1861)
* † Melanoides wollebeni Perrilliat & Vega in Perrilliat et al., 2008
* † Melanoides yolandae Perrilliat & Vega in Perrilliat et al., 2008

### Species brought into synonymy

* Melanoides abchasica (Seninski, 1905): synonym of † Tinnyea abchasica (Seninski, 1905)
* Melanoides conicus Macaleț, 2002: synonym of † Melanoides conica Macaleț, 2002
* Melanoides riqueti (Grateloup, 1840): synonym of Sermyla riqueti (Grateloup, 1840)