''Ampullaceana ampla'' is a
species
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of air-breathing
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 gastropod mollusc in the
family
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Lymnaeidae
Lymnaeidae, common name the pond snails, is a taxonomic family of small to large air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks, that belong to the clade Hygrophila.
Lymnaeidae is the only family within the superfam ...
, the pond snails.
[MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Ampullaceana ampla (W. Hartmann, 1821). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1288030 on 2019-03-23]
Distribution
This species is found in
Europe
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an countries including:
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Germany
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Poland
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Czech Republic
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[ 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
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'', Suppl. 1: 1-37
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Slovakia
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* and others in Central and Eastern Europe.Then across the
Palearctic
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The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Si ...
to
Siberia
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' The species lives in calm parts of rivers and lakes. They mostly stay on the shoreline near the water surface. ''A. ampla'' is relatively rare.
References
* Vinarski, M.V.; Glöer, P. (2007). Taxonomical notes on Euro-Siberian freshwater molluscs. 1. Turbo patulus Da Costa, 1778 is not a senior synonym of Limneus ampla Hartmann, 1821 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) Ruthenica. 17(1-2): 55-63
External links
Lymnaeidae
Gastropods described in 1841
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