Lavigeria
Not to be confused with Lavigeria Pierre, a plant genus in family Icacinaceae
Lavigeria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Paludomidae |
Subfamily: | Hauttecoeuriinae |
Tribe: | Nassopsini |
Genus: | Lavigeria Bourguignat, 1888[1] |
Lavigeria is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.
All species are restricted to Lake Tanganyika in Africa, and share in common a strong heavy shell with sculpture more characteristic of marine gastropods.
Species
Species within genus Lavigeria include:
- Lavigeria coronata Bourguignat, 1888
- Lavigeria grandis (Smith, 1881)
- Lavigeria nassa (Woodward, 1859)
- Lavigeria paucicostata (Bourguignat, 1888)
References
- ↑ Bourguignat J. R. (1888). Icon. Malac. Moll. Fluv. Tanganika: 31, 33.
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