Planorbarius

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Planorbarius
Posthornschnecke1.jpg
A live individual of Planorbarius corneus carrying the shell with the umbilicus uppermost as normal
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Genus: Planorbarius
Duméril, 1806[1]
Type species
Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Coretus Gray, 1847 (junior synonym)
  • Planorbis (Coretus) Gray, 1847

Planorbarius is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells.[2]

Species[]

Species within this genus include:

  • † (Sacco, 1886)
  • † (Brusina, 1892)
  • Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758)[3]
  • † (Brongniart, 1810)
  • † (Baily, 1858)
  • † (Serres, 1844)
  • † Schlickum & Strauch, 1979
  • † Neubauer, Harzhauser, Kroh, Georgopoulou & Mandic, 2014
  • † (Fontannes, 1876)
  • † (Rambur, 1862)
  • † (Sacco, 1886)
  • † (Dunker, 1848)
  • † (Lörenthey, 1894)
  • (Forbes, 1838)
  • † (Locard, 1883)
  • † (Fischer & Tournouër, 1873)
  • † Roshka, 1973
  • † (Jodot, 1958)
  • † (Jodot, 1958)
  • † (Noulet, 1854)
  • † (Thomä, 1845)
  • † Roshka, 1973
  • † (Brusina, 1874)
  • † (Michaud, 1855)
  • † (Gorjanović-Kramberger, 1899)
  • † (Brusina, 1897)
  • † (Jodot, 1958)
Species brought into synonymy
  • † Planorbarius borelli (Brusina, 1892): synonym of † Planorbarius borellii (Brusina, 1892)
  • † Planorbarius cornus (Brongniart, 1810): synonym of † Planorbarius cornu (Brongniart, 1810)
  • † Planorbarius grandis (Halaváts, 1903): synonym of † Planorbarius halavatsi Neubauer, Harzhauser, Kroh, Georgopoulou & Mandic, 2014
  • † Planorbarius thiollierei (Michaud, 1855): synonym of † Planorbarius thiollieri (Michaud, 1855)

Description[]

All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.

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

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. ^ a b Neubauer, Thomas A.; Bouchet, P. (2014). Planorbarius Duméril, 1805. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818481 on 2014-11-19
  3. ^ 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).

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