Lavigeria nassa

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

Lavigeria nassa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Paludomidae
Subfamily:
Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe:
Nassopsini
Genus:
Lavigeria
Species:
L. nassa
Binomial name
Lavigeria nassa
(Woodward, 1859)
Synonyms[2]

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
  1. Ngereza, C. (2010). "Lavigeria nassa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T11380A3275559. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T11380A3275559.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. Verdcourt B. (1983). "Collectors in East Africa – 6. Joseph Thomson 1858–1895". The Conchologists' Newsletter 84: 67-70.
  3. 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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