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Lanistes elliptus

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Lanistes elliptus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Lanistes
Species:
L. elliptus
Binomial name
Lanistes elliptus

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

It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, and Mozambique.

References

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  1. ^ Brown, D.S. (1996). "Lanistes elliptus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T11282A3266683. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T11282A3266683.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.