Lanistes ovum

Lanistes ovum
Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Lanistes ovum
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
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. 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. ^[ permanent dead link ] 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 Mededelingen83. 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.