MolluscaBase taxon details
Melanoides victoriae (Dohrn, 1865)
1058692 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1058692)
accepted
Species
Melania crawfordi Brot, 1894 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Melania victoriae Dohrn, 1865 · unaccepted (original combination)
(of Melania victoriae Dohrn, 1865) Dohrn, H. (1865). List of the land and freshwater shells of the Zambesi and lake Nyasa, eastern tropical Africa, collected by John Kirk. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1865: 231-234., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28497164
page(s): 234 [details]
page(s): 234 [details]
Type locality contained in Zambezi
type locality contained in Zambezi [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melanoides victoriae (Dohrn, 1865). Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1058692 on 2025-09-11
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original description
(of Melania victoriae Dohrn, 1865) Dohrn, H. (1865). List of the land and freshwater shells of the Zambesi and lake Nyasa, eastern tropical Africa, collected by John Kirk. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1865: 231-234., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28497164
page(s): 234 [details]
original description (of Melania crawfordi Brot, 1894) Brot, A. (1894). Description des deux Melaniens nouvelles. <em>Journal de conchyliologie.</em> 42: 473-476., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15929439
page(s): 473, pl. 9, fig. 5 [details]
basis of record Brown, D. S. (1980). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. Taylor & Francis, London. 1-487.
page(s): 95 [details]
additional source Brown, D. S.; Curtis, B. A.; Bethune, S.; Appleton, C. C. (1992). Freshwater snails of East Caprivi and the lower Okavango River Basin in Namibia and Botswana. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 246(1): 9-40., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00005620
page(s): 19 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Appleton, C.C. (1996). Freshwater molluscs of southern Africa. University of Natal Press: Pietermaritzburg. Pp. 1–64.
page(s): 23 [details]
additional source Connolly, M. (1939). A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 33: 1-660.
page(s): 567 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 234 [details]
original description (of Melania crawfordi Brot, 1894) Brot, A. (1894). Description des deux Melaniens nouvelles. <em>Journal de conchyliologie.</em> 42: 473-476., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15929439
page(s): 473, pl. 9, fig. 5 [details]
basis of record Brown, D. S. (1980). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. Taylor & Francis, London. 1-487.
page(s): 95 [details]
additional source Brown, D. S.; Curtis, B. A.; Bethune, S.; Appleton, C. C. (1992). Freshwater snails of East Caprivi and the lower Okavango River Basin in Namibia and Botswana. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 246(1): 9-40., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00005620
page(s): 19 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Appleton, C.C. (1996). Freshwater molluscs of southern Africa. University of Natal Press: Pietermaritzburg. Pp. 1–64.
page(s): 23 [details]
additional source Connolly, M. (1939). A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 33: 1-660.
page(s): 567 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
