Segmentina nitida

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Segmentina nitida
Conservation status
NE
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Heterobranchia
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Segmentina
Species: S. nitida
Binomial name
Segmentina nitida
(O. F. Müller, 1774)

The Shining ram's-horn snail, Segmentina nitida, is a species of small, air-breathing, freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

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[edit] Description

The shell of this species is sinistral in coiling and almost planispiral in shape. The spire is deeply sunken. The surface of the shell is glossy.

The maximum shell diameter is about 7 mm.

[edit] Habitat

This species lives in water weeds, in ponds and marsh drainage ditches. It is not common.

[edit] Distribution

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 5 March 2007.
  2. ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
  3. ^ UK Biodiversity Action Plan http://www.ukbap.org.uk/UKPlans.aspx?ID=570
  4. ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
  5. ^ http://www.anemoon.org/anm/voorlopige-kaarten/zoetwatermollusken/wetenschappelijk/segmentina-nitida
  • Janus, Horst, 1965. ‘’The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs’’, Burke, London
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