Radix peregra
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| Radix peregra | |
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| Four shells of Radix peregra, scale bar shows cm and mm | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Lymnaeinae |
| Genus: | Radix |
| Species: | R. peregra |
| Binomial name | |
| Radix peregra (O. F. Müller, 1774)[1] | |
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Radix peregra, previously known as Lymnaea peregra or Lymnaea pereger, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
There is more than one named variety or form of this snail.
Distribution
This small pond snail is found in Europe, Newfoundland and north Asia, in countries and islands including:
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Iceland
- and other areas
Habitat
This species is common in slow-moving or still water.[3]
Radix peregra
References
- ↑ Müller O. F. 1774. Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).
- ↑ Rossmässler E. A. 1835-1837. Iconographie der Land- und Süßwasser-Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten. Erster Band. pp. Heft 1: [1], I-VI [= 1-6], 1-132, [1-2], Heft 2: [1-2], 1-26, Heft 3: [1-3], 1-33, Heft 4: [1-3], 1-27, Heft 5-6: [1-3], 1-70, Taf. 1-30. Dresden, Leipzig. (Arnold).
- ↑ Janus Horst. (1965). The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. Burke, London.
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