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Bathanalia howesi |
Bathanalia howesi is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.
Bathanalia howesi is the type species of the genus Bathanalia. [3]
This species is found in Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia. [1]
Type locality is southern shore near Mleroes, Lake Tanganyika in depth of 243 m (800 feet). [3]
The shell of Bathanalia howesi is recognizable with spines. [3]
The width of the shell is 17 mm. [3] The height of the shell is 25 mm. [3]
It was found in depths from 45 m. [3] John Edmund Sharrock Moore have thought that this species can live up to depth 300 m, but Leloup (1953) mentioned maximum depth of 150–200 m. [3]