Miratesta celebensis

Miratesta celebensis
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:	Planorboidea
Family:	Planorbidae
Subfamily:	Bulininae
Tribe:	Miratestini
Genus:	Miratesta
Species:	M. celebensis
Binomial name
	Miratesta celebensis; P. Sarasin & F. Sarasin, 1898[2]

Miratesta celebensis is a species of freshwater air-breathing snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. Like all other planorbids it has a sinistral or left-coiling shell.

This species is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.

References

Bouchet P. (2000). Miratesta celebensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
(in German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1898). Die Süßwassermollusken von Celebes. Band 1. In: Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1898–1901). Materialien zur Naturgeschichte der Insel Celebes. Kreidel's Verlag, Wiesbaden. 73-77, table 10, figure 137-144.

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[1] Bouchet P. (2000). Miratesta celebensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

[2] (in German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1898). Die Süßwassermollusken von Celebes. Band 1. In: Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1898–1901). Materialien zur Naturgeschichte der Insel Celebes. Kreidel's Verlag, Wiesbaden. 73-77, table 10, figure 137-144.