Lanistes solidus

Cowie, Robert H., 2015, The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda, Zootaxa 3940 (1), pp. 1-92 : 26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B5D45D1B-4B52-4F0B-8AF6-B587F8857475
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5173325
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FFE632-0A1C-F569-FF68-CEA1AF08FC59
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Lanistes solidus
status

Treatment

solidus View in CoL

Lanistes solidus Smith, 1878: 716 View in CoL , pl. 74, figs. 10, 11. Type material — syntypes: NHMUK 1877.9.28.24 (2 spms.). Type locality —“Lake Nyassa” [in publication title]. Distribution —endemic to Lake Malawi ( Brown 1980: 54, 1994: 61; Berthold 1990: 48).

Remarks. Variety of ellipticus Martens , teste Kobelt (1909: 78). Synonym of ellipticus Martens , teste Connolly (1912: 257). Synonym of procerus Martens , teste Haas (1936: 36). Valid species, teste Kobelt (1912b: 10), G.B. Sowerby III (1916: 68) and Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 187), who placed it in Lanistes s. str., and Brown (1980: 54, 1994: 61) and Berthold (1991: 246), who both placed it in Lanistes subg. Meladomus . Here treated as a valid species, following these authors. Misspelled as “ solidulus ” by Gaudion (1880: 40) and Paetel (1888: 481).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Architaenioglossa
Family	Ampullariidae
Genus	Lanistes