''Melanoides turritispira'' is a species of

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

in the Thiaridae family. It is endemic to Lake Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss. Original description by Edgar Albert Smith from 1877 describes a juvenile snail. The

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biologi ...

treats the species as a synonym of ''

Melanoides polymorpha ''Melanoides polymorpha'' is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae. This species is endemic to Lake Malawi and is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique Mozam ...

''.

References

Fauna of Lake Malawi Thiaridae Freshwater snails of Africa Taxa named by Edgar Albert Smith Gastropods described in 1877 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Thiaridae-stub