Planorbarius

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Planorbarius
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A live individual of Planorbarius corneus carrying the shell with the umbilicus uppermost as normal
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Planorbinae
Tribe: Coretini
Genus: Planorbarius
Duméril, 1806 [1]
Type species
Planorbarius corneus(Linnaeus, 1758)
Species

See text

Synonyms [2]
  • CoretusGray, 1847; (junior synonym)
  • Planorbis (Deserticoretus)Starobogatov, 1990; (junior synonym)
  • Planorbis (Coretus)Gray, 1847; (junior synonym)
  • Planorbis (Corneana)Servain, 1888; (junior subjective synonym)
  • Planorbis (Spirodiscus)Stein, 1850; (junior homonym of SpirodiscusEhrenberg, 1830)

Planorbarius is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae (the ramshorn snails), which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells. [2]

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Description

All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.

Many species in this genus have been found to be diploid with 18 pairs, or 36 total, chromosomes. Differences in chromosomal length and other indicators were not different enough to distinguish individual species. [3]

Planorbarius corneus. View of the sunken spire (held facing downwards in life) Planorbarius corneus top.jpg
Planorbarius corneus. View of the sunken spire (held facing downwards in life)
Planorbarius corneus. View of umbilicus (held uppermost in life) Planorbarius corneus bottom.jpg
Planorbarius corneus. View of umbilicus (held uppermost in life)

Species

Species within this genus include: [2]

Extant
Extinct
Uncertain (Taxon Inquirendum)
Species brought into synonymy (Selection)

References

  1. Duméril A. M. C. (1806). Zoologie analytique, ou méthode naturelle de classification des animaux, rendue plus facile à l'aide de tableaux synoptiques. pp. i-xxxiii [= 1-33], 1–344. Paris. (Allais).
  2. 1 2 3 Vinarski, Maxim (2019). "Planorbarius Duméril, 1805". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
  3. Garbar, D. A.; Garbar, A. V. (2007). "Karyological Features of the Genus Planorbarius (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Bulinidae) of the Ukranian Fauna" (PDF). Cytology and Genetics. 41 (2): 109–114. ISSN   0095-4527.
  4. Linnaeus C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th edition. - Vermes. Testacea: 700-781. Holmiae. (Salvius).