| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| Animalia | Mollusca | Gastropoda | Sorbeoconcha | Paludomidae |
| Scientific Name: | Reymondia tanganyicensis |
| Species Authority: | Smith, 1889 |
| Red List Category & Criteria: | Vulnerable B1ab(iii) ver 3.1 |
| Year Published: | 2010 |
| Date Assessed: | 2004-05-30 |
| Annotations: |
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| Assessor(s): | Nicayennzi, F. |
| Reviewer(s): | Seddon, M.B. & Kristensen, T. (Mollusc Red List Authority) |
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Justification: The species has an EOO of less than 20,000 km², and is only known from six locations. It has a declining quality habitat due to water pollution from agricultural run-off and sedimentation. |
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| Range Description: | This species is endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This species is only recorded from Tanzania and Burundi, shown as six locations, but it may well occur between these (West et al. 2003). |
| Countries occurrence: | Native: Burundi; Tanzania, United Republic of |
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| Population: | No information available. | ||
| Current Population Trend: |  Unknown | ||
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| Habitat and Ecology: | It lives underneath rocks and cobbles in shallow waters, 0-3 m. |
| Systems: | Freshwater |
| Major Threat(s): | This species is threatened by sedimentation. |
| Conservation Actions: | No information available. |
| Citation: | Nicayennzi, F. 2010. Reymondia tanganyicensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T19435A8892031. . Downloaded on 24 July 2017. |
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