Burtoa nilotica (L. Pfeiffer, 1861)

Rapalai, Boikhutso Lerato, 2024, An annotated checklist of molluscs recorded from Botswana, Indago: Investigating nature and humanity in Africa (Oxford, England) 41 (10), pp. 15-44 : 28

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scientific name	Burtoa nilotica (L. Pfeiffer, 1861)
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43. Burtoa nilotica (L. Pfeiffer, 1861) View in CoL

Distribution and year: Tshesebe, near Francistown N/A ( Govender 2007; NMSA 2023).

Geographic range: Botswana, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Habitat: Terrestrial.

Notes: This is one of the largest land snail species with a ubiquitous distribution across tropical Africa (Tothill 1948).

Type locality: At the sources of the White Nile (probably South Sudan) (Pfeiffer 1861) .

Source: Govender (2007: 114).

Conservation status: Not Evaluated.