Anisus leucostoma

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Anisus leucostoma
Conservation status
NE
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Heterobranchia
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Anisus
Species: A. leucostoma
Binomial name
Anisus 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.

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

[edit] Distribution and conservation status

It is not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [1]

[edit] Books

Janus, Horst, 1965. The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs Burke, London

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 27 June 2007.
  2. ^ Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic
  3. ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2


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