Bulinus hightoni

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Bulinus hightoni
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Basommatophora
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Bulinus
Species: B. hightoni
Binomial name
Bulinus hightoni
Brown & Wright, 1978

Bulinus hightoni is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to Kenya, Africa.

[edit] Habitat

This snail lives in rivers, intermittent rivers, and shrub-dominated wetlands. The survival of hits species is threatened by habitat loss.

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