Gyraulus acronicus
Gyraulus acronicus is a small species of freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
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| Subfamily: | Planorbinae |
| Tribe: | Planorbini |
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| Species: | G. acronicus |
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| Gyraulus acronicus (A. Férussac, 1807)[2] | |
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Planorbis acronicus Férussac, 1807 | |
Distribution
The distribution of this species is Holarctic.
It is known to occur in islands and countries including:
- Czech Republic[3]
- Slovakia[3]
- Germany - critically endangered (vom Aussterben bedroht) [4]
- Poland - endangered[5]
- Great Britain
Description
The shell is nearly planispiral in its coiling.
Habitat
This small snail lives on water plants in freshwater.
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References
- 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 19 June 2007.
- Férussac J. B. L. d'Audebard de & Férussac A. E. J. P. J. F. d'Audebard de (1807). "Essai d'une méthode conchyliologique appliquée aux mollusques fluviatiles et terrestres d'après la considération de l'animal et de son test, par M. Daudebard de Férussac". Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une synonymie des espèces les plus remarquables, d'une table de concordance systématique de celles qui ont été décrites par Géoffroy, Poiret et Draparnaud, avec Müller et Linné, et terminée par un catalogue d'espèces observées en divers lieux de la France, par J. Daudebard fils. pp. j-xvj [= 1-16], 1-142. Paris. page 105.
- (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.
- Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 107, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- Andrzej Piechocki. "Gyraulus acronicus (Férussac, 1807)". Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
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