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Lanistes pfeifferi (Bourguignat, 1879)
848976 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:848976)
accepted
Species
Meladomus pfeifferi Bourguignat, 1879 · unaccepted (original combination)
(of Meladomus pfeifferi Bourguignat, 1879) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1879). <i>Description de diverses espèces terrestres et fluviatiles et de différents genres de Mollusques de l'Égypte, de l'Abyssinie, de Zanzibar, du Sénégal et du Centre de l'Afrique</i>. 54 pp. Paris: Jules Tremblay. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33858637
page(s): 37 [details]
page(s): 37 [details]
Note Gabon, without a precise locality
Type locality Gabon, without a precise locality [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lanistes pfeifferi (Bourguignat, 1879). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=848976 on 2025-09-11
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(of Meladomus pfeifferi Bourguignat, 1879) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1879). <i>Description de diverses espèces terrestres et fluviatiles et de différents genres de Mollusques de l'Égypte, de l'Abyssinie, de Zanzibar, du Sénégal et du Centre de l'Afrique</i>. 54 pp. Paris: Jules Tremblay. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33858637
page(s): 37 [details]
basis of record Cowie, R. H. (2015). The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: <i>Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea</i>): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3940(1): 1-92., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 37 [details]
basis of record Cowie, R. H. (2015). The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: <i>Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea</i>): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3940(1): 1-92., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1 [details] Available for editors
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Type locality Gabon, without a precise locality [details]
