Lanistes ovum
| Lanistes ovum | |
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| drawing of apertural view of the shell of Lanistes ovum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Subfamily: | Ampullariinae |
| Tribe: | Ampullariini |
| Genus: | Lanistes |
| Species: | L. ovum |
| Binomial name | |
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Lanistes ovum Peters, 1845 |
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| Synonyms | |
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informal group Architaenioglossa
Lanistes ovum is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an African apple snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae.
This species of snail is widely found in Botswana, Congo, Chad, Ghana, Cameroon, Gambia, Angola, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
These snails are found at an altitude of between 0 and 920 m (3,018 feet).
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