Bathanalia howesi

Bathanalia howesi is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.

Bathanalia howesi
Scientific classification
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Subfamily:
Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe:
Tiphobiini
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Species:
B. howesi
Binomial name
Bathanalia howesi
(Moore, 1898)[2]

Bathanalia howesi is the type species of the genus Bathanalia.[3]

Distribution

This species is found in Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.[1]

Type locality is southern shore near Mleroes, Lake Tanganyika in depth of 243 m (800 feet).[3]

Description

The shell of Bathanalia howesi is recognizable with spines.[3]

The width of the shell is 17 mm.[3] The height of the shell is 25 mm.[3]

Ecology

It was found in depths from 45 m.[3] John Edmund Sharrock Moore have thought that this species can live up to depth 300 m, but Leloup (1953) mentioned maximum depth of 150–200 m.[3]

References

  1. Nicayenzi, F. (2010). "Bathanalia howesi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T2615A9462035. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T2615A9462035.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. Moore J. E. S. (1898). "The mollusks of the Great African lakes. 2. The anatomy of the Typhobias, with a description of a new genus (Batanalia) (sic)". Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 41: 181-204. page 192. Plate 12, figure 29-33.
  3. Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.

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