Planorbarius

Planorbarius
A live individual of Planorbarius corneus carrying the shell with the umbilicus uppermost as normal
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Planorbarius
Duméril, 1806[1]
Type species
Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Coretus Gray, 1847 (junior synonym)
  • Planorbis (Coretus) Gray, 1847

Planorbarius is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells. [2]

Species

Species within this genus include:

Species brought into synonymy

Description

All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.

Planorbarius corneus. View of the sunken spire (held facing downwards in life)
Planorbarius corneus. View of umbilicus (held uppermost in life)

References

  1. Duméril A. M. C. (1806). Zoologie analytique, ou méthode naturelle de classification des animaux, rendue plus facile à l'aide de tableaux synoptiques. pp. i-xxxiii [= 1-33], 1-344. Paris. (Allais).
  2. 1 2 Neubauer, Thomas A.; Bouchet, P. (2014). Planorbarius Duméril, 1805. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818481 on 2014-11-19
  3. Linnaeus C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th edition. - Vermes. Testacea: 700-781. Holmiae. (Salvius).


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