Melanoides tuberculata

Melanoides tuberculata (also recorded as Red-ribbed Melania) is an accepted species in the family Thiaridae. Checklist records aggregated by GBIF list it from Reunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Botswana, Great Britain, Comoro Islands, Madagascar, and Mozambique. Land snails are molluscs that move on a muscular foot and usually carry a coiled shell that protects the soft body.

Common name

Red-ribbed Melania

Family

Thiaridae

Identification rank

Species

Recorded distribution

Reunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Botswana, Great Britain, Comoro Islands, Madagascar, Mozambique

Taxonomy source: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy