Bathanalia howesi

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Nicayenzi, F. |date=2010 |title=Bathanalia howesi |volume=2010 |page=e.T2615A9462035 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T2615A9462035.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| taxon = Bathanalia howesi

| authority = (Moore, 1898)Moore J. E. S. (1898). "The mollusks of the Great African lakes. 2. The anatomy of the

Typhobias, with a description of a new genus (Batanalia) (sic)". Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 41: [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlyjournal419899lond#page/180/mode/2up 181]-204. [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlyjournal419899lond#page/192/mode/2up page 192]. [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlyjournalplates419899lond#page/n50/mode/1up Plate 12], figure 29-33.

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Bathanalia howesi is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.

Bathanalia howesi is the type species of the genus Bathanalia.Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. {{ISBN|0-7484-0026-5}}.

Distribution

This species is found in Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.

Type locality is southern shore near Mleroes, Lake Tanganyika in depth of 243 m (800 feet).

Description

The shell of Bathanalia howesi is recognizable with spines.

The width of the shell is 17 mm. The height of the shell is 25 mm.

Ecology

It was found in depths from 45 m. John Edmund Sharrock Moore have thought that this species can live up to depth 300 m, but Leloup (1953) mentioned maximum depth of 150–200 m.

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Category:Paludomidae

Category:Gastropods described in 1898

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot