Gyraulus riparius

Gyraulus riparius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Planorbidae
Genus:	Gyraulus
Species:	G. riparius
Binomial name
Gyraulus riparius (Westerlund, 1865)

Gyraulus riparius shells (the grey dots on the lower right)

Gyraulus riparius is a species of small freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Holarctic:

• Germany - critically endangered (vom Aussterben bedroht) ^[1]
• Netherlands ^[2]

Habitat

This small snail lives on water plants in freshwater.

Shell description

The shell is nearly planispiral in its coiling.

References

1. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 107, ISBN   3-923376-02-2
2. (in Dutch) Gittenberger E., Janssen A. W., Kuijper W. J., Kuiper J. G. J., Meijer T., van der Velde G. & de Vries J. N. (2004). Nederlandse zoetwatermollusken. Nederlandse Fauna 2. KNNV uitgeverij . 288 pp., ISBN   978-90-5011-201-7. 152-153 Archived 2007-10-23 at the Wayback Machine .