Pettancylus tanganyicensis
Species of gastropod
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Pettancylus tanganyicensis is a species of small freshwater snail or limpet, an aquatic gastropod in the family Planorbidae.[2]
| Pettancylus tanganyicensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Pettancylus |
| Species: | P. tanganyicensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Pettancylus tanganyicensis (E. A. Smith, 1906) | |
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Distribution
This species is only found in Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.[1]
