Hippeutis complanatus | |
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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: | Segmentinini |
Genus: | Hippeutis |
Species: | H. complanatus |
Binomial name | |
Hippeutis complanatus (Linnaeus, 1758)[2] |
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Synonyms | |
Segmentina complanata |
Hippeutis complanatus, or the flat ram's-horn snail, is a species of minute air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Hippeutis complanatus is the type species of the genus Hippeutis.
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The species is found in the Palearctic zone, including Europe.
This minute shell is almost perfectly planispiral and shaped like a lens. The whorls overlap one another. The shell color varies from offwhite to a brownish yellow.
This snail lives in ponds and ditches, and prefers calcium-rich waters.[5]