Gyraulus chinensis

Gyraulus chinensis
A group of shells of Gyraulus chinensis, scale bar in mm
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: Gyraulus
Species: G. chinensis
Binomial name
Gyraulus chinensis
(Dunker, 1848)[1]

Gyraulus chinensis is a species of small freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Distribution

The non-indigenous distribution for this species includes:

References

  1. ^ Dunker G. (1848). "Diagnoses specierum novarum generis Planorbis collectionis Cumingianæ". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 16: 40-43.
  2. ^ Beran L. & Glöer P. (2006) Gyraulus chinensis (Dunker, 1848) – a new greenhouse species for the Czech Republic (Gastropoda: Planorbidae). – Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 5: 25–28. Online serial at <http://mollusca.sav.sk> 12-May-2006.
  3. ^ (Dutch) Gittenberger E., Janssen A. W., Kuijper W. J., Kuiper J. G. J., Meijer T., van der Velde G. & de Vries J. N. (2004). Nederlandse zoetwatermollusken. Nederlandse Fauna 2. KNNV uitgeverij . 288 pp., ISBN 9789050112017. 152-153.