Lanistes ovum
Species of gastropod
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Lanistes ovum is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an African apple snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae.
| Lanistes ovum | |
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| Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Lanistes ovum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Genus: | Lanistes |
| Species: | L. ovum |
| Binomial name | |
| Lanistes ovum Peters, 1845 | |
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The shell coiling in this species is left-handed, aka sinistral.
This species of snail is widely found in Botswana, Congo, Chad, Ghana, Cameroon, Gambia, Angola, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe[2][3][4] and South Africa.[5]
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Habitat
These snails are found at an altitude of between 0 and 920 m (3,018 feet).[6]