| Lanistes
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| Lanistes bernardianus (Morelet, 1860)
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Mollusca
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| Class:
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Gastropoda
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| Subclass:
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Caenogastropoda
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| Order:
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Architaenioglossa
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| Family:
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Ampullariidae
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| Subfamily:
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Ampullariinae
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| Genus:
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Lanistes
Montfort, 1810
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| Type species
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Lanistes carinatus (Olivier, 1804).
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| Diversity
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21 extant species
and at least 10 fossil species
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| Synonyms
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- Ampullaria (Lanistes)
- Lanistes (Meladomus) Swainson, 1840
- Lanistes (Plesiolanistes) Berthold, 1991
- Lanistes (Prolanistes) Schütt in Schütt & Besenecker, 1973 · accepted, alternate representation
- Leroya Grandidier, 1887
- Meladomus Swainson, 1840
- Meladomus (Bolteniana) Bourguignat, 1889
- Meladomus (Lanistes)
- Meladomus (Libyciana) Bourguignat, 1889
- Meladomus (Meladomus) Swainson, 1840 (formerly used as subgenus of Lanistes)
- Meladomus (Nyassana) Bourguignat, 1889
- Meladomus (Olivaceana) Bourguignat, 1889
- Meladomus (Purpuriana) Bourguignat, 1889
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Lanistes is a genus of freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.