Lanistes alexandri

Lanistes alexandri
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 2.3) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
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 mollusc 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". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996: e.T11279A3266340. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T11279A3266340.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.

• UNEP-WCMC species database info Archived 2008-09-24 at the Wayback Machine