| Lentorbis | |
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| Drawing of apical, apertural and umbilical view of the shell of Lentorbis carringtoni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Lentorbis Mandahl-Barth, 19541 |
Lentorbis is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.
Distribution
This genus lives in Africa.
Species
Species within this genus include:2
- Lentorbis benguelensis (Dunker, 1845)
- Lentorbis carringtoni (de Azevedo et al., 1961)3
- Lentorbis junodi (Connolly, 1922)4
References
References
- Mandahl-Barth (1954). "The freshwater Mollusks of Uganda and adjacent territories". Annalen van het Koninklijk Museum van Belgisch - Congo = Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge. (Sér. 8) Sciences zoologiques. 32: 92.
- "Lentorbis Mandahl-Barth, 1954". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 31 March 2026.
- Appleton, C.; Darwall, W.; Kaunda, E.; Kristensen, T.K.; Mailosi, A.; Stensgaard, A-S. (2010). "Lentorbis carringtoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010 e.T63440A12675517. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T63440A12675517.en. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- Albrecht, C.; Clewing, C.; Lange, C. (2018). "Lentorbis junodi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018 e.T165787A120115897. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T165787A120115897.en. Retrieved 5 July 2024.