Planorbis carinatus

Planorbis carinatus
Conservation status
	NE
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:	Planorbis
Species:	P. carinatus
Binomial name
	Planorbis carinatus; O. F. Müller, 1774

Planorbis carinatus is species of air-breathing freshwater snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails.

Description

The width of shell of this species is 9–15 mm. The shell has a noticeable keel at the center of the periphery of the body whorl.

Distribution

Planorbis carinatus is found across Europe from Spain to Scandinavia. The Distribution type is European Wide-temperate range.

This species is not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE)^[1]
Czech Republic^[2]
Slovakia^[2]
Germany
Netherlands^[3]
Poland

Ecology

The habitat of this species is larger water bodies such as the open water of canals, rivers and lakes. It is essentially a hard water species and it is only locally found in very soft or acid waters.

References

^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <http://www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 5 March 2007.
^ ^a ^b (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
^ (in Dutch) [1] Planorbis carinatus — ANEMOON

External links

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[1] 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <http://www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 5 March 2007.

[Horsák_2010-2] (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.

[3] (in Dutch) [1] Planorbis carinatus — ANEMOON

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