Bathanalia howesi is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.

[3] This species is found in Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.

[1] Type locality is southern shore near Mleroes, Lake Tanganyika in depth of 243 m (800 feet).

[3] The shell of Bathanalia howesi is recognizable with spines.

[3] It was found in depths from 45 m.[3] John Edmund Sharrock Moore have thought that this species can live up to depth 300 m, but Leloup (1953) mentioned maximum depth of 150–200 m.[3]