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Lanistes ciliatus
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ciliatus
Lanistes ciliatus Martens, 1878: 296, pl. 2, figs. 8–10. Type material — holotype [by monotypy]: ZMB 30060 (Köhler & Glaubrecht 2006: 201). Type locality —“Finboni, Sansibar-Küste” [= “ Kenya, Finboni, near the coast, between Mombassa and Taita” (Köhler & Glaubrecht 2006: 201)]. Distribution —coastal region of southeastern Kenya (Brown 1980: 52, 1994: 61).
Remarks. Valid species, teste Kobelt (1911: 23), G.B. Sowerby III (1916: 69), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 186), Brown (1980: 52, 1994: 61) and Berthold (1991: 246), who all (except Sowerby, who placed it in Lanistes subg. Leroya) placed it in Lanistes s. str.
Notes
Published as part of Cowie, Robert H., 2015, The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda, pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 3940 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288204
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ampullariidae
- Genus
- Lanistes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Architaenioglossa
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Species
- ciliatus
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Kohler, F. & Glaubrecht, M. (2006) The types of Ampullariidae Gray, 1824 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Malacological Collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin: an annotated catalogue with lectotype designations. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, Zoologische Reihe, 82 (1), 198 - 215.
- Brown, D. S. (1980) Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. Taylor & Francis, London, x + 487 pp.
- Kobelt, W. (1911 - 1915) Die Gattung Ampullaria. Neue Folge. In: Kuster, H. C. (Ed.), Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Neue Folge. Ersten Bandes zwanzigste Abtheilung. Baur & Raspe, Nurnberg [= Nuremburg], pp. 1 - 236, pls. 22 - 79.
- Pilsbry, H. A. & Bequaert, J. T. (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 (2), 69 - 602, pls. 10 - 77. [9 May; cover of article]
- Berthold, T. (1991) Vergleichende Anatomie, Phylogenie und historische Biogeographie der Ampullariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, NF, 29, 1 - 256.