Cleopatra ferruginea

Species of gastropod

Cleopatra ferruginea

Shell of Cleopatra ferruginea (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Paludomidae
Genus:	Cleopatra
Species:	C. ferruginea
Binomial name
*Cleopatra ferruginea* (Lea & Lea, 1850)
Synonyms
Cleopatra amaena (Morelet, 1851) (junior synonym) Cleopatra aurocincta E. von Martens, 1879 Cleopatra cameroni Bourguignat, 1879 Cleopatra dautzenbergi Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927 (junior synonym) Cleopatra kynganica Bourguignat, 1879 Cleopatra letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1879 Melania amaena Morelet, 1851 (junior synonym) Melania ferruginea I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851 (original combination) Melania zanguebarensis Petit de la Saussaye, 1851 Paludomus ferrugineus (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851) (superseded combination)

Cleopatra ferruginea is a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.

Distribution

The holotype was found in Zanzibar.

This species is also found in Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda^[1] and South Africa.^[2]

Its natural habitats are intermittent rivers, swamps, and freshwater marshes.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Appleton, C.; Kristensen, T.K.; Lange, C.N.; Stensgaard, A-S. (2010). "Cleopatra ferruginea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T44238A10879113. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T44238A10879113.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
^ Appleton C. C., Forbes A. T.& Demetriades N. T. (2009). "The occurrence, bionomics and potential impacts of the invasive freshwater snail Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in South Africa". Zoologische Mededelingen 83. http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a04 Archived 2017-09-27 at the Wayback Machine

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Pilsbry, H. A.; Bequaert, J. C. (1927). The aquatic mollusks of the Belgian Congo: with a geographical and ecological account of Congo malacology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 53: 69-602
Bourguignat, J.-R. (1879). Description de diverses espèces terrestres et fluviatiles et de différents genres de Mollusques de l'Égypte, de l'Abyssinie, de Zanzibar, du Sénégal et du Centre de l'Afrique. 54 pp. Paris: Jules Tremblay
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