Lanistes elliptus
| Lanistes elliptus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Subfamily: | Ampullariinae |
| Tribe: | Ampullariini |
| Genus: | Lanistes |
| Species: | L. elliptus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lanistes elliptus Martens | |
Lanistes elliptus is a species of large freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk with a gill and an operculum in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, and Mozambique.
References
- ↑ Brown D. S. (1996). Lanistes elliptus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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