Bellamya leopoldvillensis

Bellamya leopoldvillensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa

Superfamily: Viviparoidea
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Bellamya
Species: B. leopoldvillensis
Binomial name
Bellamya leopoldvillensis
Putzeys, 1898

Bellamya leopoldvillensis is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.

This species is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

References

  1. Brown, D.S. 1996. Bellamya leopoldvillensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
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