Segmentina nitida
Segmentina nitida | |
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Apical view of a shell of Segmentina nitida | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Superorder: | Hygrophila |
Family: | Planorbidae |
Genus: | Segmentina |
Species: | S. nitida
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Binomial name | |
Segmentina nitida (O. F. Müller, 1774)
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The shining ram's-horn snail, Segmentina nitida, is a species of minute, air-breathing, freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails.
Description[]
The shell of this species is sinistral in coiling and almost planispiral in shape. The spire is deeply sunken. The surface of the shell is glossy.[2]
The maximum shell diameter is about 7 mm.[2]
Habitat[]
This species lives in water weeds, in ponds and marsh drainage ditches. It is uncommon to rare.[2]
Distribution[]
This species occurs in countries and islands including:
- Czech Republic - vulnerable (VU)[3]
- British Isles - listed in List of endangered species in the British Isles.
- Great Britain in England - endangered (EN)[4]
- Germany - endangered (gefährdet)[5]
- Latvia
- Netherlands[6]
- Poland
- Slovakia
References[]
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 5 March 2007.
- ^ a b c Janus, Horst, 1965. The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. Burke, London.
- ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001). "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
- ^ UK Biodiversity Action Plan "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-02-27. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- ^ "Anemoon > Flora en Fauna > Soorteninformatie". www.anemoon.org.
External links[]
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Categories:
- Planorbidae
- Gastropods described in 1774
- Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller