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Lavigeria

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Lavigeria
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Paludomidae
Genus: Lavigeria
Bourguignat, 1888[1]

Lavigeria is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.

All species are restricted to Lake Tanganyika in Africa, and share in common a strong heavy shell with sculpture more characteristic of marine gastropods.

Species

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Species within genus Lavigeria include:

References

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  1. ^ Bourguignat J. R. (1888). Icon. Malac. Moll. Fluv. Tanganika: 31, 33.