Ancylus Temporal range: | |
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Ancylus fluviatilis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Superorder: | Hygrophila |
Family: | Planorbidae |
Subfamily: | Ancylinae |
Tribe: | Ancylini |
Genus: | Ancylus O. F. Müller, 1773 [1] |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
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Ancylus is a genus of very small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets. They are aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the tribe Ancylini within the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies. [2]
Species in the genus Ancylus include:
A cladogram based on sequences of mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA and cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of Ancylus by Albrecht et al. (2006): [6]
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