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Genus of gastropods Not to be confused with Lavigeria Pierre, a plant genus in family Icacinaceae

Lavigeria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Paludomidae
Subfamily: Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe: Nassopsini
Genus: Lavigeria
Bourguignat, 1888

Lavigeria is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.

All species are restricted to Lake Tanganyika in Africa, and share in common a strong heavy shell with sculpture more characteristic of marine gastropods.

Species

Species within genus Lavigeria include:

References

  1. Bourguignat J. R. (1888). Icon. Malac. Moll. Fluv. Tanganika: 31, 33.
Taxon identifiers
Lavigeria
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