Bridouxia smithiana

Bridouxia smithiana is a species of tropical freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Paludomidae.

Bridouxia smithiana
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Paludomidae
Genus:	Bridouxia
Species:	B. smithiana
Binomial name
Bridouxia smithiana (Bourguignat, 1885)[2]
Synonyms[1][3]
Stanleya smithiana Bourguignat, 1885 Bridouxiana smithiana Bourguignat [orth. error]

This species is found in Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. The threats are not exactly known but sedimentation is possible. Its status was Endangered since 1996 but was relisted as Data Deficient in 2004.