Bellamya jeffreysi: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Architaenioglossa
- Family
- Viviparidae
- Genus
- Bellamya
- Species
- Bellamya jeffreysi
- Scientific Name
- Bellamya jeffreysi
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bellamya jeffreysi
Bellamya jeffreysi is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
This species is found in Malawi and Mozambique, in Lake Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. It is threatened by sedimentation and pollution. The only known conservation measure is that a small area of the lake is protected as a national park.
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Sibling Taxa
- Bellamya capillata
- Bellamya constricta
- Bellamya contracta
- Bellamya crawshayi
- Bellamya ecclesi
- Bellamya hilmendensis
- Bellamya jeffreysi
- Bellamya leopoldvillensis
- Bellamya liberiana
- Bellamya monardi
- Bellamya mweruensis
- Bellamya pagodiformis
- Bellamya phthinotropis
- Bellamya robertsoni
- Bellamya rubicunda
- Bellamya trochlearis
- Bellamya unicolor