Lanistes Montfort 1810 (apple snail)
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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
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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