Lentorbis
Lentorbis is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
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| Genus: | Lentorbis Mandahl-Barth, 1954[1] |
All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.
Distribution
This genus lives in Africa.
Species
Species within this genus include:
- Lentorbis carringtoni (de Azevedo et al., 1961)[2]
- Lentorbis junodi (Connolly, 1922)[3]
References
- Mandahl-Barth (1954). Ann. Mus. Congo belge (Sér. 8) Sci. Zool., 32: 92.
- Appleton C., Darwall W., Kaunda E., Kristensen T. K., Mailosi A. & Stensgaard A-S. (2009). Lentorbis carringtoni. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 4 December 2010.
- Appleton C., Jørgensen A., Kristensen T. K., Lange C., Stensgaard A-S. & Van Damme D. (2009). Lentorbis junodi. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 4 December 2010.
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