Bulinus hightoni

Bulinus hightoni is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Bulinus hightoni
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Bulinidae
Genus:	Bulinus
Species:	B. hightoni
Binomial name
Bulinus hightoni Brown & Wright, 1978

Distribution

This species is endemic to Kenya, Africa.

Habitat

This snail lives in rivers, intermittent rivers, and shrub-dominated wetlands. The survival of hits species is threatened by habitat loss.