Lanistes ovum

Lanistes ovum
	Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Lanistes ovum
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
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. ovum
Binomial name
	Lanistes ovum; Peters, 1845
Synonyms
	Lanistes connollyi Pain, 1954; Lanistes elatior Haas, 1936; Lanistes innesi Pallary, 1902; Lanistes procerus Martens, 1866;

Lanistes ovum is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an African apple snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae.

The shell coiling in this species is left-handed, aka sinistral.

Habitat

These snails are found at an altitude of between 0 and 920 m (3,018 feet).^[6]

^ ^a ^b Jørgensen A., Kristensen T. K., Lange C. N., Stensgaard A-S. & Van Damme D. (2009). Lanistes ovum. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 June 2011.
^ Lanistes Ovum, Apple Snail Website.
^ Freshwater Snails of Africa and Their Medical Importance Brown, D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and Their Medical Importance. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-7484-0026-3
^ [1] Appleton, C. C., Curtis, B. A., Alonso, L. E. & Kipping, J. (2003). Freshwater invertebrates of the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
^ Appleton C. C., Forbes A. T.& Demetriades N. T. (2009). "The occurrence, bionomics and potential impacts of the invasive freshwater snail Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in South Africa". Zoologische Mededelingen 83. http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a04 Archived 2017-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
^ Lanistes Ovum Archived 2012-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, Zipcodezoo.com.