Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata

Searched as Melanoides tuberculata. The Paleobiology Database treats Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata as the accepted name.

The red-rimmed melania, also known as the Malayan livebearing snail or Malayan/Malaysian trumpet snail, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, a parthenogenetic, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.

Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata

Dennis L. · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Melanoides (Melanoides)PBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Thiaridae

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 23 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

23 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Lothidok — 3.33°N, 35.75°ETananwan — 25.12°N, 121.32°E

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The named rock units Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

10 references

Each of the 23 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata

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Dennis L.
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CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Melanoides (Melanoides) tuberculata was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Müller 1774)