page_title: Lanistes ovum
hierarchical_section_title: Lanistes ovum
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of the apertural view of the shell of Lanistes ovum.
context_page_description: Lanistes ovum is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an African apple snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae.
  The shell coiling in this species is left-handed, aka sinistral.
  This species of snail is widely found in Botswana, Congo, Chad, Ghana, Cameroon, Gambia, Angola, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
context_section_description: Lanistes ovum is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an African apple snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae.
  The shell coiling in this species is left-handed, aka sinistral.
  This species of snail is widely found in Botswana, Congo, Chad, Ghana, Cameroon, Gambia, Angola, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
caption: Drawing of apertural view.
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