Biology:Bellamya phthinotropis

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Short description: Species of snail

Bellamya phthinotropis

Critically endangered, possibly extinct (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Bellamya
Species:
B. phthinotropis
Binomial name
Bellamya phthinotropis
(Martens, 1892)

Bellamya phthinotropis is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.

This species is found in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. It was first described by Eduard von Martens in 1892.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q308611 entry