Species notes
About 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