title: Lanistes ovum
text: # Lanistes ovum
  
  Lanistes ovum is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an African apple snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae.
  
  The shell coiling in this species is left-handed, aka sinistral.
  
  This species of snail is widely found in Botswana, Congo, Chad, Ghana, Cameroon, Gambia, Angola, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
  
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  ## Habitat
  
  These snails are found at an altitude of between 0 and 920 m (3,018 feet).
  
  