Gyraulus albus | |
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Conservation status | |
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: | Gyraulus |
Species: | G. albus |
Binomial name | |
Gyraulus albus (O. F. Müller, 1774) |
Gyraulus albus (common name : White Ramshorn) 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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This small snail lives in various types of freshwater habitats among weed and on bottom mud. It doesn't require a high level of calcium.
The shell of this species is rather small, reaching a height of 1.3 - 1.8 mm and a width of 4 - 7 mm. This shell has a discoid shape with 4 - 4½ body whorls that expand in the direction of the aperture. This aperture and the whorls are curved and do not have a keel.
The shell of this species is white (sometimes darkened by mud deposits) and has a characteristic spiral sculpture.