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The red-rimmed melania (Melanoides tuberculata), [3] [4] also known as Malayan livebearing snails or Malayan/Malaysian trumpet snails (often abbreviated to MTS) by aquarists, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, a parthenogenetic, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.
Thiaridae, common name thiarids or trumpet snails, is a family of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily ...
Thiara winteri (von Dem Busch, 1842) - Indo-Pacific, spiky trumpet snail [2] Synonyms. Thiara amaruloidea Iredale, 1943: synonym of Thiara amarula (Linnaeus, 1758) Thiara balonnensis T. A. Conrad, 1850 and Thiara lirata C. T. Menke, 1843 [2] are synonyms of Plotiopsis balonnensis (Conrad, 1850)
Physidae species (bladder or tadpole snails) Lymnaeidae (pond and melantho snails) Lymnaea stagnalis (great pond snail) Planorbarius corneus (Great Ramshorn) Melanoides tuberculata (red-rimmed melania or Malaysian trumpet snail) Tarebia granifera (quilted melania or spike-tail trumpet snail) Cipangopaludina malleata (Japanese trapdoor snail)
The Illinois List of Endangered and Threatened Species is reviewed about every five years by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board (ESPB). [1] To date it has evaluated only plants and animals of the US state of Illinois, not fungi, algae, or other forms of life; species that occur in Illinois which are listed as endangered or threatened by the U.S. federal government under the ...
A molluscivore is a carnivorous animal that specialises in feeding on molluscs such as gastropods, bivalves, brachiopods and cephalopods.Known molluscivores include numerous predatory (and often cannibalistic) molluscs, (e.g. octopuses, murexes, decollate snails and oyster drills), arthropods such as crabs and firefly larvae, and vertebrates such as fish, birds and mammals. [1]
Mermet Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 2,630 acres (1,060 ha) and 690 acres (280 ha) of water Massac County, Illinois, United States. It is an old cypress swamp that sports abundant fowl and fish. It also has hiking trails and a large archery competition called the Pro/Am National Archery Tournament, which is ...
Charonia is a genus of very large sea snail, commonly known as Triton's trumpet or Triton snail. They are marine gastropod mollusks in the monotypic family Charoniidae . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are one of the few natural predators of the crown-of-thorns starfish .