Gyraulus riparius
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| Gyraulus riparius | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Gyraulus |
| Species: | G. riparius
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| Binomial name | |
| Gyraulus riparius (Westerlund, 1865)
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Gyraulus riparius is a species of small freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Distribution
[edit | edit source]The distribution of this species is Holarctic:
- Germany - critically endangered (vom Aussterben bedroht)[1]
- Netherlands[2]
Habitat
[edit | edit source]This small snail lives on water plants in freshwater.
Shell description
[edit | edit source]The shell is nearly planispiral in its coiling.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 107, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ (in Dutch) Gittenberger E., Janssen A. W., Kuijper W. J., Kuiper J. G. J., Meijer T., van der Velde G. & de Vries J. N. (2004). Nederlandse zoetwatermollusken. Nederlandse Fauna 2. KNNV uitgeverij . 288 pp., Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. 152-153 Archived 2007-10-23 at the Wayback Machine.
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