Ancylus

Taxobox
name = "Ancylus"
fossil_range= fossil range|Tertiary|recent


image_caption = "Ancylus fluviatilis"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Planorbidae
genus = "Ancylus"
genus_authority = O. F. Müller, 1773 [O. F. Müller: "Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia". Volumen alterum. - pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36] , 1-214, [1-10] . Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber). (1774)]
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"Ancylus" is a genus of very small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets. They are aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ancylidae (sometimes placed in the Planorbidae).

The genus is known from the Tertiary to the recent periods. [(in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: "Základy zoopaleontologie". - Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3.]

pecies

* "Ancylus aduncus" A. A. Gould, 1847
* "Ancylus fluviatilis" O. F. Müller, 1774
* "Ancylus lapicidus" Hubendick, 1960
* "Ancylus scalariformis" Stankovic & Radoman, 1953
* "Ancylus striatus" Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
* "Ancylus tapirulus" Polinski, 1929

References

External links

* [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Ancylidae.html good images and more information]