Bellamya mweruensis

Bellamya mweruensis is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.

Bellamya mweruensis

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Viviparoidea
Family:
Viviparidae
Genus:
Bellamya
Species:
B. mweruensis
Binomial name
Bellamya mweruensis
(Smith, 1893)

This species is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia.

References
  1. Jørgensen, A. 2010. Bellamya mweruensis. 2010 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 3 March 2017.


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