Planorbis

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Planorbis
Temporal range: Jurassic–recent
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Drawing of a shell of Planorbis planorbis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Planorbinae
Tribe: Planorbini
Genus: Planorbis
O. F. Müller, 1774 [1]
Species

See text

Synonyms [2]

TropidiscusStein, 1850

Planorbis is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells. [2]

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Description

Planorbis shells are flat-coiled and sinistral.

Distribution

This genus has a worldwide distribution. It is known from the Jurassic to the Recent periods. [3]

Species

Extant species currently in Planorbis [2]
Fossil species (selection)
Suggenera and species brought into synonymy

Related Research Articles

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Gyraulus is a genus of small, mostly air-breathing, freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

<i>Anisus</i> Genus of gastropods

Anisus is a genus of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Planorbinae of the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails and their allies.

References

  1. Müller O. F. (1773). Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Voluminis Imi pars Ima. pp. [1-33], 1-135. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).
  2. 1 2 3 Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2014). Planorbis O. F. Müller, 1773. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182692 on 2014-11-23
  3. (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. - Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN   80-7067-599-3.

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