Lavigeria

Not to be confused with Lavigeria Pierre, a plant genus in family Icacinaceae

Lavigeria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Paludomidae
Subfamily:	Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe:	Nassopsini
Genus:	Lavigeria Bourguignat, 1888

Lavigeria is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.

All species are restricted to Lake Tanganyika in Africa, and share in common a strong heavy shell with sculpture more characteristic of marine gastropods.

Species

Species within genus Lavigeria include:

• Lavigeria coronata Bourguignat, 1888
• Lavigeria grandis (Smith, 1881)
• Lavigeria nassa (Woodward, 1859)
• Lavigeria paucicostata (Bourguignat, 1888)