About Lanistes ovum Troschel, 1845
Lanistes ovum Troschel, 1845 is a species of left-handed (sinistral) coiled freshwater operculate snail. It is classified as an African apple snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk that belongs to the family Ampullariidae. This snail species is widely distributed across Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Members of this species live in habitats that sit between 0 and 920 meters (0 and 3,018 feet) in altitude.
