Lanistes ovum is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an African apple snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Egg-shaped Lanistes being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Architaenioglossa
- Family
- Ampullariidae
- Genus
- Lanistes
- Species
- Lanistes ovum
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