Lanistes intortus

Lanistes intortus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa

Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Subfamily: Ampullariinae
Tribe: Ampullariini
Genus: Lanistes
Species: L. intortus
Binomial name
Lanistes intortus
Martens, 1877

Lanistes intortus is a species of large freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk with a gill and an operculum in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

It is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1] They are one of approximately 41 species of Lanistes.[2]

They are typically found at an altitude between 0 and 490 m (1,608ft),[3] living in and around brackish water habitats.[4] They are characterised by a shell of 30 mm, light brown with small, darker spiral bands.[4]

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