Anisus leucostoma
Shells of Anisus leucostoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Anisus
Species:
A. leucostoma
Binomial name
Anisus leucostoma
(Millet, 1813)[2]
Synonyms

Planorbis leucostoma Millet, 1813

Anisus leucostoma is a European species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

Taxonomy

Glöer (2002)[3] considered Anisus septemgyratus (Rossmässler, 1835) as a junior synonym of Anisus leucostoma (Millet, 1813). Later Glöer & Meier-Brook (2008)[4] used name Anisus septemgyratus again.

Anisus leucostoma may be a narrow-whorled morphotype of Anisus spirorbis.[5]

Shell description

The shell of this species is about 8 mm in maximum dimension, usually planispiral and tightly coiled, with a white rib in the aperture.[6]

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including:

References

  1. ^ Van Damme D. & Seddon M. B. (2011). "Anisus leucostoma". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 22 February 2015.
  2. ^ (in French) Millet P. A. (1813). Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, observés dans le Département de Maine et Loire. pp. j.xj [= 1–11], 1–82, 1 tableau. Angers. page 16.
  3. ^ (in German) Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 254-263.
  4. ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2008). "Redescription of Anisus septemgyratus (Rossmässler, 1835) and Anisus leucostoma (Millet, 1813) (Gastropoda: Planorbidae)". Mollusca 26(1): 89–94.
  5. ^ "Identifying British freshwater snails: Genus: Anisus | the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland".
  6. ^ Janus, Horst, 1965. The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs Burke, London
  7. ^ a b (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.
  8. ^ Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic
  9. ^ (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2.

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