Thiaridae

Thiaridae
Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous[1] or Eocene-Recent[2]
A live individual of Red-rimmed melania, Melanoides tuberculata, crawling on the glass of an aquarium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Gill, 1871 (1823)
Synonyms
  • Melaniidae Children, 1823[5]
  • Melanoididae Ihering, 1909[6]

Thiaridae, common name thiarids or trumpet snails, is a family of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea.[7]

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  5. ^ Children (1823). Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature & Arts 15: 243.
  6. ^ Ihering (1909). Journal de Conchlyliologie 57(4): 296.
  7. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Thiaridae Gill, 1871 (1823). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196287 on 2021-07-28