Gyraulus rossmaessleri
| Gyraulus rossmaessleri | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Gyraulus |
| Species: | G. rossmaessleri
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| Binomial name | |
| Gyraulus rossmaessleri (Auerswald, 1852)
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Gyraulus rossmaessleri is a small species of freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Distribution
[edit]The distribution of this species is Holarctic. It occurs in countries and islands including:
- Germany - critically endangered (vom Aussterben bedroht)[1]
Habitat
[edit]This small snail lives on water plants in freshwater.
Shell description
[edit]The shell is nearly planispiral in its coiling.
References
[edit]- ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 107, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
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