Lanistes

Lanistes
Lanistes bernardianus (Morelet, 1860)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Ampullariidae
Subfamily: Ampullariinae
Genus: Lanistes
Montfort, 1810
Type species
Lanistes carinatus (Olivier, 1804).
Diversity
21 extant species
and at least 10 fossil species
Synonyms
  • Ampullaria (Lanistes)
  • Lanistes (Meladomus) Swainson, 1840
  • Lanistes (Plesiolanistes) Berthold, 1991
  • Lanistes (Prolanistes) Schütt in Schütt & Besenecker, 1973 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Leroya Grandidier, 1887
  • Meladomus Swainson, 1840
  • Meladomus (Bolteniana) Bourguignat, 1889
  • Meladomus (Lanistes)
  • Meladomus (Libyciana) Bourguignat, 1889
  • Meladomus (Meladomus) Swainson, 1840 (formerly used as subgenus of Lanistes)
  • Meladomus (Nyassana) Bourguignat, 1889
  • Meladomus (Olivaceana) Bourguignat, 1889
  • Meladomus (Purpuriana) Bourguignat, 1889

Lanistes is a genus of freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

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