Lanistes lybicus from Cameroon. (picture not licenced under creative commons)

Lanistes lybicus from Cameroon. (picture not licenced under creative commons)

Shell: The snail form this genus all have a hyperstrophic sinistral shell, which means the shell is sinistral, bit the body of the snail is dextral.
Operculum: The operculum is corneous. The structure is concentric with the nucleus near the centre of the shell.
Body: Brown foot with small light speckles equally distributed over the sole and whole visible body.

Interactive 3D-models (Java): - Lanistes lybicus eggs

Eggs: The eggs are aquatic and encapsulated in a gelatinous mass.

Lanistes lybicus mating. The male is at the left, the female at the right. (picture not licenced under creative commons)	Pomacea bridigesi mating.
Mating snails: Lanistes lybicus in the left photo and Pomacea diffusa at the right one. When comparing these photographs, one can see that both species have a dextral (right turned) body, as in both species the male inserts its penial complex inside the right side of the female's mantle cavity (arrow), while the shell is sinistral in Lanistes and dextral in Pomacea.

Food: Does not eat aquarium plants as far as known (Information from Gerald Depaus).
Behaviour:
Distribution: Cameroon, and probably the whole region from the Ivory Coast to Gabon.

More information: For more information about this snail species:

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