Myxas glutinosa

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Myxas glutinosa
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Superorder: Heterobranchia Order: Pulmonata Family: Lymnaeidae Genus: Myxas Species: M. glutinosa
Binomial name
Myxas glutinosa (Müller, 1774)

The Glutinous snail, Myxas glutinosa is a species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

This species is rapidly declining or already extinct in many European countries due to loss of good habitat.

Contents 1 Distribution 2 Habitat 3 Conservation status 4 References

[edit] Distribution

This species is European: it is now rare in western Europe, and even rarer in eastern Europe.

[edit] Habitat

This species requires pollution-free, extremely clear, calm water, in calcium-rich canals, streams and lakes

[edit] Conservation status

• British Isles - listed in List of endangered species in the British Isles
• Czech Republic - extinct in Bohemia
• Germany - critically endangered (vom Aussterben bedroht) ^[2]

[edit] References

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