Planorbis corinna

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Planorbis corinna
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
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P. corinna
Binomial name
Planorbis corinna
Gray, 1850

Planorbis corinna is a species of minute, air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk, or micromollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All planorbids have sinistral or left-coiling shells.

Distribution[]

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1]

Shell description[]

This species, like all planorbids, has a sinistral shell. The shell in this species is very minute, discoidal, with four slowly increasing whorls. The shell coloration is greenish-white to light brown. The width of the shell is up to 3.3 mm, and the height is up to 0.8 mm.

References[]

  1. ^ Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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