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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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Lentorbis
Drawing of apical, apertural and umbilical view of the shell of Lentorbis carringtoni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

  1. 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.
  2. "Lentorbis Mandahl-Barth, 1954". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 31 March 2026.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.