Ceratophallus kisumiensis

Ceratophallus kisumiensis
Ceratophallus kisumiensis
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Ceratophallus
Species: C. kisumiensis
Binomial name
Ceratophallus kisumiensis
(Preston, 1912)

Ceratophallus kisumiensis is a species of freshwater air-breathing snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells.

This species is found in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are freshwater lakes and intermittent freshwater lakes.

References

  1. ^ Lange C. N. (2004). Ceratophallus kisumiensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.