Lanistes

Lanistes
	Lanistes bernardianus (Morelet, 1860)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Subfamily:	Ampullariinae
Genus:	Lanistes; Montfort, 1810
Type species
	Lanistes carinatus (Olivier, 1804).;
Diversity
	21 extant species; and at least 10 fossil species
Synonyms
	Ampullaria (Lanistes); Lanistes (Meladomus) Swainson, 1840; Lanistes (Plesiolanistes) Berthold, 1991; Lanistes (Prolanistes) Schütt in Schütt & Besenecker, 1973 · accepted, alternate representation; Leroya Grandidier, 1887; Meladomus Swainson, 1840; Meladomus (Bolteniana) Bourguignat, 1889; Meladomus (Lanistes); Meladomus (Libyciana) Bourguignat, 1889; Meladomus (Meladomus) Swainson, 1840 (formerly used as subgenus of Lanistes); Meladomus (Nyassana) Bourguignat, 1889; Meladomus (Olivaceana) Bourguignat, 1889; Meladomus (Purpuriana) Bourguignat, 1889;

Lanistes is a genus of freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

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