''Gyraulus acronicus'' is a small
species of
freshwater snail
Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs ...
, an
aquatic pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the family
Planorbidae, the
ram's horn snails.
Distribution
The distribution of this species is
Holarctic.
It is known to occur in islands and countries including:
*
Czech Republic[ Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. nnotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics. '' Malacologica Bohemoslovaca'', Suppl. 1: 1-37]
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Slovakia
* Germany - critically endangered (''vom Aussterben bedroht'')
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Poland - endangered
*
Great Britain
Description
The shell is nearly planispiral in its coiling.
Habitat
This small snail lives on water plants in freshwater.
References
acronicus
Gastropods described in 1807
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