A juvenile, sinistral shell of Melanoides tuberculata is recorded from a fossil bearing layer in the Nahal Poleg basin in Israel. It seems to represent the first case of a sinistral specimen of this species.

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Henk K. Mienis, & Reuven Ortal. (1996). A sinistral specimen of Melanoides tuberculata (Müll.) from Israel (Gastropoda Prosobranchia: Thiaridae). Basteria, 59(4/6), 96–96.