Anisus leucostoma

Anisus leucostoma is a European species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

Anisus leucostoma
Shells of Anisus leucostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Subfamily:
Planorbinae
Tribe:
Planorbini
Genus:
Subgenus:
Anisus
Species:
A. leucostoma
Binomial name
Anisus leucostoma
(Millet, 1813)[2]
Synonyms

Planorbis leucostoma Millet, 1813

Taxonomy

Glöer (2002)[3] considered Anisus septemgyratus (Rossmässler, 1835) as a junior synonym of Anisus leucostoma (Millet, 1813). Later Glöer & Meier-Brook (2008)[4] used name Anisus septemgyratus again.

Anisus leucostoma may be a narrow-whorled morphotype of Anisus spirorbis.[5]

Shell description

The shell of this species is about 8 mm in maximum dimension, usually planispiral and tightly coiled, with a white rib in the aperture.[6]

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including:

References

  1. Van Damme D. & Seddon M. B. (2011). "Anisus leucostoma". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 22 February 2015.
  2. (in French) Millet P. A. (1813). Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, observés dans le Département de Maine et Loire. pp. j.xj [= 1–11], 1–82, 1 tableau. Angers. page 16.
  3. (in German) Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 254-263.
  4. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2008). "Redescription of Anisus septemgyratus (Rossmässler, 1835) and Anisus leucostoma (Millet, 1813) (Gastropoda: Planorbidae)". Mollusca 26(1): 89–94.
  5. http://www.conchsoc.org/aids_to_id/Anisus.php
  6. Janus, Horst, 1965. The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs Burke, London
  7. (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1–37. PDF.
  8. Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic
  9. (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2.
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