Gyraulus riparius | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Superorder: | Hygrophila |
Family: | Planorbidae |
Genus: | Gyraulus |
Species: | G. riparius
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Binomial name | |
Gyraulus riparius (Westerlund, 1865)
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Gyraulus riparius is a species of small freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
The distribution of this species is Holarctic:
This small snail lives on water plants in freshwater.
The shell is nearly planispiral in its coiling.