Lanistes Montfort 1810 (apple snail)

Gastropoda - Architaenioglossa - Ampullariidae

Parent taxon: Ampullariidae according to H. L. Abbass 1967

Sister taxa: Afropominae, Ampullariinae, Asolene, Coronatica, Mesolanistes, Pictavia, Pila, Pomacea, Pseudoceratodes

Subtaxa: Lanistes (Lanistes) Lanistes oliveri

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Type: Lanistes oliveri

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Egypt (1 collection), Kenya (1), Sudan (2)

• Pliocene of Malawi (2), Tanzania (4), Uganda (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1), Tanzania (3), Uganda (36)

• Miocene of Kenya (1)

• Oligocene of Oman (3)

• Eocene of Egypt (1), Oman (1)

Total: 57 collections including 87 occurrences

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