Bathanalia howesi
Bathanalia howesi is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.
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| Subfamily: | Hauttecoeuriinae |
| Tribe: | Tiphobiini |
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| Species: | B. howesi |
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Bathanalia howesi is the type species of the genus Bathanalia.[3]
Distribution
This species is found in Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.[1]
Type locality is southern shore near Mleroes, Lake Tanganyika in depth of 243 m (800 feet).[3]
Description
The shell of Bathanalia howesi is recognizable with spines.[3]
The width of the shell is 17 mm.[3] The height of the shell is 25 mm.[3]
Ecology
It was found in depths from 45 m.[3] John Edmund Sharrock Moore have thought that this species can live up to depth 300 m, but Leloup (1953) mentioned maximum depth of 150–200 m.[3]
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References
- Nicayenzi F. (2004). Bathanalia howesi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 June 2011.
- Moore J. E. S. (1898). "The mollusks of the Great African lakes. 2. The anatomy of the Typhobias, with a description of a new genus (Batanalia) (sic)". Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 41: 181-204. page 192. Plate 12, figure 29-33.
- Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
Further reading
- Moore J. E. S. (1898). "Descriptions of the genera Bathanalia and Bythoceras, from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3 : 92-93.
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