Segmentina nitida | |
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Apical view of a shell of Segmentina nitida | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Superorder: | Hygrophila |
Family: | Planorbidae |
Genus: | Segmentina |
Species: | S. nitida |
Binomial name | |
Segmentina nitida (O. F. Müller, 1774) | |
Segmentina nitida, the shining ram's-horn snail, is a species of minute, air-breathing, freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails.
The shell of this species is sinistral in coiling and almost planispiral in shape. The spire is deeply sunken. The surface of the shell is glossy. [1]
The maximum shell diameter is about 7 mm. [1]
This species lives in water weeds, in ponds and marsh drainage ditches. It is uncommon to rare. [1]
This species occurs in countries and islands including:
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