Lavigeria coronata

Lavigera coronata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Paludomidae
Subfamily: Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe: Nassopsini
Genus: Lavigeria
Species: L. coronata
Binomial name
Lavigeria coronata
Bourguignat, 1888

Lavigeria coronata is a species of tropical freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.

This species is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. Nicayenzi F., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Lavigera coronata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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