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Planorbarius

Planorbarius
Posthornschnecke1.jpg
A live individual of Planorbarius corneus carrying the shell with the umbilicus uppermost as normal
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Planorbarius
Duméril, 1806
Type species
Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species

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Synonyms
  • Coretus Gray, 1847 (junior synonym)
  • Planorbis (Coretus) Gray, 1847

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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.

Species within this genus include:

All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.



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