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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| Lavigeria nassa (Woodward, 1859)
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Tiphobia (Paramelania) nassa Woodward var. paucicostata E. A. Smith, 1881[2] | |
This species is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Smith E. A. (1881). "Descriptions of two new species of shells from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 558-561.
- ^ Verdcourt B. (1983). "Collectors in East Africa – 6. Joseph Thomson 1858–1895". The Conchologists' Newsletter 84: 67-70.
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