Bulinus hightoni

Taxobox
name = "Bulinus hightoni"


status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Basommatophora
familia = Planorbidae
genus = "Bulinus"
species = "B. hightoni"
binomial = "Bulinus hightoni"
binomial_authority = Brown & Wright, 1978
synonyms =

"Bulinus hightoni" is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Kenya, Africa.

Habitat

This snail lives in rivers, intermittent rivers, and shrub-dominated wetlands. The survival of hits species is threatened by habitat loss.

References

* Lange, C.N. & Ngereza, C. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/44260/all Bulinus hightoni] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 06 August 2007.