Planorbis corinna
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Planorbis corinna Gray, 1850
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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[]
- ^ Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1
Categories:
- Planorbidae
- Gastropods described in 1850
- Taxa named by John Edward Gray
- Planorbidae stubs