Bathanalia straeleni

Bathanalia straeleni is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.

Bathanalia straeleni

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Paludomidae
Subfamily:
Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe:
Tiphobiini
Genus:
Bathanalia
Species:
B. straeleni
Binomial name
Bathanalia straeleni
Leloup, 1953

This species found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is intermittent freshwater lakes.

References
  1. Nicayenzi F., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Bathanalia straeleni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 6 August 2007.

Further reading
  • Strong E. E. & Glaubrecht M. (2010). "Anatomy of the Tiphobiini from Lake Tanganyika (Cerithioidea, Paludomidae)". Malacologia 52(1): 115-153. doi:10.4002/040.052.0108.


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