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Lanistes
Sign in to saveLanistes is a genus of freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
Species
PHYLUM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderArchitaenioglossa
- FamilyAmpullariidae
Habitatfreshwater
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 185
- With media
- 16
- Family
- Ampullariidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, PRI, MSB, UMMZ, AUM, NCSM
- Recorded in
- Dr Congo, Guinea, Benin, Senegal, Kenya, Guinea Ecuatorial, Gabonese Republic, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The
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Lanistes is a genus of freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
== Distribution == The distribution of the genus Lanistes includes Africa and Madagascar.
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