Acorn ramshorn

Acorn ramshorn
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Planorbella
Species: P. multivolvis
Binomial name
Planorbella multivolvis
(Case, 1847)

The acorn ramshorn, scientific name Planorbella multivolvis, was a species of small freshwater air-breathing snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

This species was endemic to the United States. It is now considered to be extinct.

References

  1. Bogan A. E. (2000). Planorbella multivolvis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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