Planorbis carinatus
Planorbis carinatus is species of air-breathing freshwater snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails.
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Planorbis |
| Species: | P. carinatus |
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| Planorbis carinatus O. F. Müller, 1774 | |
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Description
The width of shell of this species is 9–15 mm. The shell has a noticeable keel at the center of the periphery of the body whorl.
Distribution
Planorbis carinatus is found across Europe from Spain to Scandinavia. The Distribution type is European Wide-temperate range.
- This species has not yet been evaluated for the IUCN red list[1]
- Czech Republic[2]
- Slovakia[2]
- Germany
- Netherlands[3]
- Poland
Ecology
The habitat of this species is larger water bodies such as the open water of canals, rivers and lakes. It is essentially a hard water species and it is only locally found in very soft or acid waters.
References
- 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <http://www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 5 March 2007.
- (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
- (in Dutch) Planorbis carinatus — ANEMOON
External links
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- Planorbis carinatus at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
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