Lanistes neritoides

Lanistes neritoides 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 neritoides

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[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. neritoides
Binomial name
Lanistes neritoides
Brown & Berthold, 1990

It is endemic to the Republic of the Congo.

References
  1. Jørgensen, A. (2010). "Lanistes neritoides". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2010: e.T11288A3267939. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T11288A3267939.en. Retrieved 11 January 2018.


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