Lanistes ovum

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
Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Lanistes ovum
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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
Synonyms[1]
Lanistes connollyi Pain, 1954 Lanistes elatior Haas, 1936 Lanistes innesi Pallary, 1902 Lanistes procerus Martens, 1866

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]

Drawing of apertural view.

Drawing of abapertural view.

Habitat

These snails are found at an altitude of between 0 and 920 m (3,018 feet).^[6]