Cleopatra ferruginea is a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Paludomidae |
| Genus: | Cleopatra |
| Species: | C. ferruginea
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| Cleopatra ferruginea (Lea & Lea, 1850)
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Distribution
editThe holotype was found in Zanzibar.
This species is also found in Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda[1] and South Africa.[2]
Its natural habitats are intermittent rivers, swamps, and freshwater marshes.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Appleton, C.; Kristensen, T.K.; Lange, C.N.; Stensgaard, A-S. (2010). "Cleopatra ferruginea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T44238A10879113. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T44238A10879113.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Appleton C. C., Forbes A. T.& Demetriades N. T. (2009). "The occurrence, bionomics and potential impacts of the invasive freshwater snail Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in South Africa". Zoologische Mededelingen 83. http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a04 Archived 2017-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Brown, D. S. (1980). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. Taylor & Francis, London. 1-487
- Connolly, M. (1925). The non-marine Mollusca of Portuguese East Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 12 (3): 105-220, pl. 4-8. Cape Town.
- Germain, L. (1935). Contribution à l'étude de la faune du Mozambique. Voyage de M.P. Lesne (1928–29). 17e note – mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. Memórias e Estudos do Museu Zoológico da Universidadae de Coimbra [Series1] 80: 1–72.
- Appleton, C.C. (1977). The fresh-water Mollusca of Tongaland with a note on molluscan distribution in Lake Sibaya. Annals of the Natal Museum 23(1):129-144.
- Connolly, M. (1939). A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. Annals of the South African Museum 33: 1–660
- Brown D.S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance, 2nd edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 607 p
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- Lea, I.; Lea, H. C. (1851). Description of a new genus of the family Melaniana, and of many new species of the genus Melania, chiefly collected by Hugh Cuming, Esq., during his zoological voyage in the East , and now first described. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 18: 179-197
- Pilsbry, H. A.; Bequaert, J. C. (1927). The aquatic mollusks of the Belgian Congo: with a geographical and ecological account of Congo malacology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 53: 69-602
- Bourguignat, J.-R. (1879). Description de diverses espèces terrestres et fluviatiles et de différents genres de Mollusques de l'Égypte, de l'Abyssinie, de Zanzibar, du Sénégal et du Centre de l'Afrique. 54 pp. Paris: Jules Tremblay
- Martens, E. von. (1879). Recente Conchylien von Bagamojo. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1879: 102-103
- Petit de la Saussaye, S. (1851). Description de coquilles nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie. 2: 259-269; pl. 7 fig. 1-4, 7-8; pl. 8 fig. 3, 5-9
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