Lanistes ovum | |
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Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Lanistes ovum | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Family: | Ampullariidae |
Genus: | Lanistes |
Species: | L. ovum
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Binomial name | |
Lanistes ovum
Peters, 1845
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Synonyms [1] | |
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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]
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These snails are found at an altitude of between 0 and 920 m (3,018 feet). [6]