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Melanoides victoriae
Melanoides victoriae is a species of a freshwater snail, a gastropod in the Thiaridae family.
From the article Melanoides victoriae on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The width of the shell is 10 mm. The height of the shell is 29 mm.
== References ==
Range & habitat
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:
Botswana South Africa Zambezi River, Zimbabwe East Caprivi and Okavango River in north-eastern Namibia Cunene River
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 105511.