Gyraulus acronicus

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Gyraulus acronicus
Conservation status
NE
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Heterobranchia
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Gyraulus
Species: G. acronicus
Binomial name
Gyraulus acronicus
(A. Férussac, 1807)

Gyraulus acronicus (A. Férussac, 1807) is a small species of freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

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[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] Habitat

On water plants in freshwater.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is nearly planispiral in its coiling.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 19 June 2007.
  2. ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 107, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
  3. ^ Andrzej Piechocki. Gyraulus acronicus (Férussac, 1807). Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk.


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