| Anisus vorticulus | |
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| Shells of Anisus vorticulus | |
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NE[1]
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Planorboidea |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Subfamily: | Planorbinae |
| Tribe: | Planorbini |
| Genus: | Anisus |
| Subgenus: | Disculifer |
| Species: | A. vorticulus |
| Binomial name | |
| Anisus vorticulus (Troschel, 1834) |
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The ramshorn snail, Anisus vorticulus is a species of minute, air-breathing, freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails.
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This species is mentioned in annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive.
It occurs in:
This small snail lives in pools with standing water and in oxbow lakes, but these biotopes are threatened because of sedimentation and ecological succession.[8]
In the Czech Republic this species usually lives in biotopes where there are lots of Lemna trisulca.[8]
Water quality that is suitable for Anisus vorticulus is water without turbidity; with a pH from 7 to 7,5; with calcium from 40 to 400 mg/l and with electrical conductivity from 200 to 1100 mS/m.[8]