Lanistes alexandri

Lanistes alexandri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa

Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Lanistes
Species: L. alexandri
Binomial name
Lanistes alexandri
Bourguignat, 1850

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

This species is endemic to Tanzania.

References

  1. ↑ Brown D. S. (1996). Lanistes alexandri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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