Animalia > Mollusca > Gastropoda > Planorbidae > Planorbarius > Planorbarius corneusPlanorbarius corneus (great ramshorn)Synonyms: Coretus corneus; Coretus corneus corneus; Coretus corneus etruscus; Helix cornea (homotypic); Planorbarius corneus corneus; Planorbarius corneus etruscus; Planorbarius penchinati; Planorbarius purpurea; Planorbis banaticus; Planorbis clathratus (heterotypic); Planorbis etruscus; Planorbis penchinati; Planorbis purpura; Planorbis similis (heterotypic) Planorbarius corneus, common name the great ramshorn, is a relatively large species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells. The shell of this species appears to be dextral in coiling, even though it is in fact sinistral or left-handed. |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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