Lanistes alexandri

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Lanistes alexandri
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa

Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Lanistes
Species: L. alexandri
Binomial name
Lanistes alexandri
Bourguignat, 1850

Lanistes alexandri is a species of large freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk with a gill and an operculum in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

This species is endemic to Tanzania.

References

  1. Brown D. S. (1996). Lanistes alexandri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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