The red-rimmed melania (Melanoides tuberculata), also known as the Malayan livebearing snail or Malayan/Malaysian trumpet snail (often abbreviated to MTS by aquarists), is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, a parthenogenetic, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Red-rimmed Melania being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Elimia virginica
- Elimia laqueata
- Cerithideopsis californica
- Plotiopsis balonnensis
- Zeacumantus lutulentus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Family
- Thiaridae
- Genus
- Melanoides
- Species
- Melanoides tuberculata
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