| Lanistes nyassanus | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| 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. nyassanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lanistes nyassanus Dohrn, 1865[2] |
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Lanistes nyassanus is a species of large freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk with a gill and an operculum in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
The specific name nyassanus is derived from its type locality, Lake Nyassa.
Lanistes nyassanus is found in Malawi and Mozambique.[1]
Type locality is southern end of Lake Nyassa.[2]
The width of the shell is 75 mm.[3] The height of the shell is 68 mm.[3]