Lanistes ciliatus

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 : 15

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5173276
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scientific name	Lanistes ciliatus
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ciliatus View in CoL

Lanistes ciliatus Martens, 1878: 296 View in CoL , pl. 2, figs. 8–10. Type material — holotype [by monotypy]: ZMB 30060 ( Köhler & Glaubrecht 2006: 201). Type locality —“Finboni, Sansibar-Küste” [= “ Kenya, Finboni, near the coast, between Mombassa and Taita” ( Köhler & Glaubrecht 2006: 201)]. Distribution —coastal region of southeastern Kenya ( Brown 1980: 52, 1994: 61).

Remarks. Valid species, teste Kobelt (1911: 23), G.B. Sowerby III (1916: 69), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 186), Brown (1980: 52, 1994: 61) and Berthold (1991: 246), who all (except Sowerby, who placed it in Lanistes subg. Leroya ) placed it in Lanistes s. str.

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