Lanistes solidus

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

Lanistes solidus

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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. solidus
Binomial name
Lanistes solidus

Distribution

It is found in Malawi and Mozambique.[1]

References
  1. Albrecht, C. & Clewing, C. 2018. Lanistes solidus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T11290A120112029. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T11290A120112029.en. Downloaded on 28 December 2018.
  2. Smith E. A. (1877). "On the shells of Lake Nyasa, and on a few marine species from Mozambique". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 712-722. Plate 74, figures 10-11.


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