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.

Lanistes elliptus

Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Ampullarioidea
Family:
Ampullariidae
Subfamily:
Ampullariinae
Tribe:
Ampullariini
Genus:
Lanistes
Species:
L. elliptus
Binomial name
Lanistes elliptus

It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, and Mozambique.

References
  1. Brown D. S. (1996). Lanistes elliptus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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