Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Paludomidae Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Cerithioidea Scientific name Stanleya neritinoides | |
Genus Stanleya
Bourguignat, 1885 Similar Paludomidae, Tiphobia horei, Caenogastropoda | ||
Stanleya neritinoides is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.
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Stanleya neritinoides is probably the only species in the genus Stanleya. The genus Stanleya may be closely related to the genus Tanganyicia.
This species was listed as Endangered in the 2006 IUCN Red List.
Distribution
This speciest is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.
The type locality is Lake Tanganyika.
Description
The width of the shell is 8.0 mm. The height of the shell is 9.8 mm.
References
Stanleya neritinoides Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA