Genus Melanoides Olivier, 1804

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melanoides Olivier, G.A. 1804. Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse, fait par ordre du gouvernement pendant les six premières années de la République. Paris : Henri Agasse Tom 2 (avec Atlas) 462 pp. [69].

  Type species:

   Melano fasciolata Olivier, 1804 by monotypy.
• Striatella Brot, A.L. 1870. Catalogue of the recent species of the family Melanidae. American Journal of Conchology 6: 271-325 [290].

  Type species:

   Melanoides fasciolata Olivier, 1804 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Cowie, R.H. 1998. Catalog of Nonmarine Snails and Slugs of the Samoan Islands. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Zoology 3: i-viii, 1-122 [32]

Glaubrecht, M., Brinkmann, N. & Pöppe, J. 2009. Diversity and disparity 'down under': Systematics, biogeography and reproductive modes of the 'marsupial' freshwater Thiaridae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea) in Australia. Zoosystematics and Evolution 85(2): 199-275 [221]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	THIARIDAE	11-Oct-2011	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)