Lavigeria
Genus of gastropods
| Lavigeria | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Paludomidae |
| Subfamily: | Hauttecoeuriinae |
| Tribe: | Nassopsini |
| Genus: | Lavigeria Bourguignat, 1888[1] |
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
Species within genus Lavigeria include:
- Lavigeria coronata Bourguignat, 1888
- Lavigeria grandis (Smith, 1881)
- Lavigeria nassa (Woodward, 1859)
- Lavigeria paucicostata (Bourguignat, 1888)
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lavigeria (Gastropoda).
- ^ Bourguignat J. R. (1888). Icon. Malac. Moll. Fluv. Tanganika: 31, 33.
