Lanistes intortus

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| image_alt = A museum specimen of a Lanistes intortus shell with vouchers

| image_caption = Lanistes intortus shell

| image = Naturalis_Biodiversity_Center_-_RMNH.MOL.157588_-_Lanistes_intortus_Lamarck_-_Ampullariidae_-_Mollusc_shell.jpeg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Jørgensen, A. |date=2010 |title=Lanistes intortus |volume=2010 |page=e.T11285A3267247 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T11285A3267247.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| taxon = Lanistes intortus

| authority = Martens, 1877

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Lanistes intortus is a species of large freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk with a gill and an operculum in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

It is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are one of approximately 41 species of Lanistes.[http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/L/Lanistes_intortus/ Lanistes intortus] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527235758/http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/L/Lanistes_intortus/ |date=2012-05-27 }}, ZipcodeZoo.com.

They are typically found at an altitude between 0 and 490 m (1,608 ft),Data from British Oceanographic Data Centre. living in and around brackish water habitats.[https://web.archive.org/web/20030718172804/http://members.tripod.com/arnobrosi/lanistes.html Family Ampullariidae:Lanistes] They are characterised by a shell of 30 mm, light brown with small, darker spiral bands.