Lavigeria

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Not to be confused with Lavigeria Pierre, a plant genus in family Icacinaceae

Lavigeria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Paludomidae
Subfamily:
Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe:
Nassopsini
Genus:
Lavigeria

Lavigeria is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.

All species are restricted to Lake Tanganyika in Africa, and share in common a strong heavy shell with sculpture more characteristic of marine gastropods.

Species

Species within genus Lavigeria include:

References

  1. ^ Bourguignat J. R. (1888). Icon. Malac. Moll. Fluv. Tanganika: 31, 33.

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