Lanistes ovum
Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Lanistes ovum
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. ovum
Binomial name
Lanistes ovum
Peters, 1845
Synonyms[1]
  • Lanistes connollyi Pain, 1954
  • Lanistes elatior Haas, 1936
  • Lanistes innesi Pallary, 1902
  • Lanistes procerus Martens, 1866

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]

Drawing of apertural view.
Drawing of abapertural view.

Habitat

These snails are found at an altitude of between 0 and 920 m (3,018 feet).[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Albrecht, C.; Clewing, C.; Jørgensen, A.; Kristensen, T.K.; Lange, C.; Stensgaard, A.-S. (2018). "Lanistes ovum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T165799A120111809. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T165799A120111809.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Lanistes Ovum, Apple Snail Website.
  3. ↑ Freshwater Snails of Africa and Their Medical Importance Brown, D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and Their Medical Importance. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-7484-0026-3
  4. ↑ Appleton, C. C., Curtis, B. A., Alonso, L. E. & Kipping, J. (2003). Freshwater invertebrates of the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
  5. ↑ Appleton C. C., Forbes A. T.& Demetriades N. T. (2009). "The occurrence, bionomics and potential impacts of the invasive freshwater snail Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in South Africa". Zoologische Mededelingen 83. http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a04 Archived 2017-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Lanistes Ovum Archived 2012-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, Zipcodezoo.com.
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