| Lanistes elliptus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Genus: | Lanistes |
| Species: | L. elliptus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lanistes elliptus | |
Lanistes elliptus is a species of large freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk with a gill and an operculum in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, and Mozambique.
