Lavigeria
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Genus: | Lavigeria Bourguignat, 1888[1]
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Lavigeria is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.
All species are restricted to Lake Tanganyika in Africa, and share in common a strong heavy shell with sculpture more characteristic of marine gastropods.
Species
[edit]Species within genus Lavigeria include:
- Lavigeria coronata Bourguignat, 1888
- Lavigeria grandis (Smith, 1881)
- Lavigeria nassa (Woodward, 1859)
- Lavigeria paucicostata (Bourguignat, 1888)
References
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- ^ Bourguignat J. R. (1888). Icon. Malac. Moll. Fluv. Tanganika: 31, 33.