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Lanistes elliptus

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Lanistes elliptus
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. 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

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