Hippeutis complanatus
Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hippeutis complanatus, or the flat ram's-horn snail, is a species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Hippeutis |
| Species: | H. complanatus |
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| Hippeutis complanatus | |
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Hippeutis complanatus is the type species of the genus Hippeutis.
The species is found in the Palearctic zone, including Europe.
- Latvia
- Czech Republic - least concern (LC)[3]
- Slovakia
- Poland
- Germany
- Austria
- Netherlands[4]
- Sweden
- British Isles: Great Britain, Ireland
This minute shell is almost perfectly planispiral and shaped like a lens. The whorls overlap one another. The shell color varies from offwhite to a brownish yellow.
This snail lives in ponds and ditches, and prefers calcium-rich waters.[5]
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