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Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata

Gastropoda - Thiaridae

Taxonomy
Melania tuberculata was named by Müller (1774). It is extant.

It was recombined as Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata by Oostingh (1935) and Hendy (2007).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1774Melania tuberculata Müller
1935Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata Oostingh p. 13
2007Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata Hendy

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyCerithioidea(Férussac 1819)
familyThiaridaeTroschel 1857
subfamilyThiarinaeMorrison 1954
genusMelanoidesOlivier 1804
subgenusMelanoidesOlivier 1804
speciestuberculata(Müller 1774)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Environment: freshwaterf
Locomotion: actively mobilesuperf
Life habit: epifaunalsuperf
Diet: grazersuperf
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2017-04-17 10:14:32
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:14:32
Source: f = family, superf = superfamily, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Pliocene or 11.60800 to 2.58800 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Indonesia Melanoides tuberculata (70091)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Indonesia Melanoides tuberculata (84519 84520 84528 84529 84533 84534 84537 84542)