Melanoides victoriae

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| image_caption = apertural view of a shell of Melanoides victoriae

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| taxon = Melanoides victoriae

| authority = (Dohrn, 1865)Dohrn H. (1865). "List of the land and freshwater shells of the Zambezi and Lake Nyasa, eastern tropical Africa, collected by John Kirk". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: [https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen65zool#page/230/mode/2up 231]-234. [https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen65zool#page/234/mode/2up page 234].

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Melania victoriae Dohrn, 1865

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Melanoides victoriae is a species of a freshwater snail, a gastropod in the Thiaridae family.Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. {{ISBN|0-7484-0026-5}}.

Distribution

The type locality is "the rapids above the Victoria Falls of the Zambezi", Zambezi River at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.

Melanoides victoriae is endemic to Southern Africa, and the species distribution includes:

Description

The width of the shell is 10 mm. The height of the shell is 29 mm.

References

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Category:Thiaridae

Category:Gastropods described in 1865

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