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Lanistes ovum

Lanistes ovum
Lanistes ovum shell 3.png
drawing of apertural view of the shell of Lanistes ovum
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. ovum
Binomial name
Lanistes ovum
Peters, 1845
Synonyms
  • Lanistes connollyi Pain, 1954
  • Lanistes elatior Haas, 1936
  • Lanistes innesi Pallary, 1902
  • Lanistes procerus Martens, 1866

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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