Bathanalia howesi

Bathanalia howesi is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.

Bathanalia howesi
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Paludomidae
Genus:	Bathanalia
Species:	B. howesi
Binomial name
Bathanalia howesi (Moore, 1898)[2]

Bathanalia howesi is the type species of the genus Bathanalia.^[3]

Distribution

This species is found in Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.^[1]

Type locality is southern shore near Mleroes, Lake Tanganyika in depth of 243 m (800 feet).^[3]

Description

The shell of Bathanalia howesi is recognizable with spines.^[3]

The width of the shell is 17 mm.^[3] The height of the shell is 25 mm.^[3]

Ecology

It was found in depths from 45 m.^[3] John Edmund Sharrock Moore have thought that this species can live up to depth 300 m, but Leloup (1953) mentioned maximum depth of 150–200 m.^[3]