🌿Native Nature

Red-rimmed Melania

Melanoides tuberculata

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia ›Phylum: Mollusca ›Class: Gastropoda ›Family: Thiaridae ›Genus: Melanoides

About

The red-rimmed melania, scientific name Melanoides tuberculata, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, a parthenogenetic, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.