Bulinus nyassanus

Bulinus nyassanus
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Bulininae
Tribe: Bulinini
Genus: Bulinus
Species: B. nyassanus
Binomial name
Bulinus nyassanus
(E. A. Smith, 1877)[2]
Synonyms

Physa nyassana E. A. Smith, 1877

Bulinus nyassanus is a species of small air-breathing freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails and their allies.

This species is endemic to Malawi.

References

  1. ^ Brown D. S. (1996). Bulinus nyassanus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  2. ^ Smith E. A. (1877). "On the shells of Lake Nyasa, and on a few marine species from Mozambique". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 712-722. pages 717-718, plate 75, figure 16-17.