Lanistes ovum
Appearance
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Lanistes ovum Peters, 1845
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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.
This species of snail is widely found in Botswana, Congo, Chad, Ghana, Cameroon, Gambia, Angola, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe[2][3][4] and South Africa.[5]
Habitat
These snails are found at an altitude of between 0 and 920 m (3,018 feet).[6]
References
- ^ 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
- ^ Lanistes Ovum Archived 2012-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, Zipcodezoo.com.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Ampullariidae
- Freshwater snails
- Gastropods described in 1845
- Gastropods of Africa
- Invertebrates of Angola
- Invertebrates of Botswana
- Invertebrates of Chad
- Invertebrates of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Invertebrates of Cameroon
- Invertebrates of Namibia
- Invertebrates of West Africa
- Invertebrates of Tanzania
- Invertebrates of Mozambique
- Invertebrates of Zimbabwe