Lanistes elliptus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Family: | Ampullariidae |
Genus: | Lanistes |
Species: | L. elliptus
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Binomial name | |
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.
It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, and Mozambique.