Red-rimmed melania females are both parthenogenic and ovoviparous.

The red-rimmed melania, scientific name Melanoides tuberculata, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, a parthenogenetic, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.

The parasite is transmitted via a freshwater snail Red-rimmed melania Melanoides tuberculata that was introduced in the United States and Mexico in the 1960s.

Like "Tarebia granifera", "Melanoides tuberculata" is parthenogenetic and ovoviviparous, grows to a similar size, are similar in size at first birth and juvenile output.

The parasite is transmitted via a freshwater snail Red-rimmed melania Melanoides tuberculata that was introduced in the United States and Mexico in the 1960s.