Bridouxia praeclara

Bridouxia praeclara
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Paludomidae
Subfamily:	Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe:	Spekiini
Genus:	Bridouxia
Species:	B. praeclara
Binomial name
	Bridouxia praeclara; (Bourguignat, 1885)
Synonyms
	Giraudia praeclara Bourguignat, 1885; Bridouxiana praeclara Bourguignat [orth. error];

Bridouxia praeclara is a species of tropical freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.

This species is found in Burundi, Tanzania, and Zambia.^[1] Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Nicayenzi F., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Bridouxia praeclara. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
^ Bourguignat J. R. (1885). Notice prodromique sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles recueillis par M. Victor Giraud dans la region méridionale du lac Tanganika. pages 62-63.
^ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.

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