Bellamya leopoldvillensis is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
Bellamya leopoldvillensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Family: | Viviparidae |
Genus: | Bellamya |
Species: | B. leopoldvillensis
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Binomial name | |
Bellamya leopoldvillensis Putzeys, 1898
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This species is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was first described by S. Putzeys in 1898.
References
edit- ^ Jørgensen, A. (2010). "Bellamya leopoldvillensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T2745A9475241. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T2745A9475241.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.