Gyraulus chinensis

Gyraulus chinensis is a species of small freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Gyraulus chinensis
A group of shells of Gyraulus chinensis, scale bar in mm
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:
Planorboidea
Family:
Planorbidae
Subfamily:
Planorbinae
Tribe:
Planorbini
Genus:
Gyraulus
Species:
G. chinensis
Binomial name
Gyraulus chinensis
(Dunker, 1848)[1]

Distribution

This species is native to Asia.

The non-indigenous distribution for this species includes:

References
  1. Dunker G. (1848). "Diagnoses specierum novarum generis Planorbis collectionis Cumingianæ". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 16: 40-43.
  2. Beran L. & Glöer P. (2006) Gyraulus chinensis (Dunker, 1848) – a new greenhouse species for the Czech Republic (Gastropoda: Planorbidae). – Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 5: 25–28. Online serial at <http://mollusca.sav.sk> 12-May-2006.
  3. (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., ISBN 978-90-5011-201-7. 152-153 Archived 2007-10-23 at the Wayback Machine.


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