Anceya giraudi

Anceya giraudi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Paludomidae
Genus: Anceya
Species: A. giraudi
Binomial name
Anceya giraudi
Bourguignat, 1885[2]

Anceya giraudi is a species of tropical freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.[1]

This species is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.[1] Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.[1]

Anceya giraudi has been considered as Endangered species in 1996.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Nicayenzi F., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Anceya giraudi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  2. Bourguignat J. R. (1885). Notice prodromique sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles recueillis par M. Victor Giraud dans la region méridionale du lac Tanganika. Paris. page 15.


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