Lavigeria nassa
Lavigeria nassa is a species of tropical freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Paludomidae.
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| Subfamily: | Hauttecoeuriinae |
| Tribe: | Nassopsini |
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| Species: | L. nassa |
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| Lavigeria nassa (Woodward, 1859) | |
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Tiphobia (Paramelania) nassa Woodward var. paucicostata E. A. Smith, 1881[3] | |
This species is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.
References
- Nicayenzi F., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Lavigera nassa. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- Verdcourt B. (1983). "Collectors in East Africa – 6. Joseph Thomson 1858–1895". The Conchologists' Newsletter 84: 67-70.
- Smith E. A. (1881). "Descriptions of two new species of shells from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 558-561.
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