Anisus vorticulus

Taxobox
name = "Anisus vorticulus"

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image_width = 225px
status = NE
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Planorbidae
genus = "Anisus"
species = "A. vorticulus"
binomial = "Anisus vorticulus"
binomial_authority = (Troschel, 1834)

The Ramshorn snail, "Anisus vorticulus" is a species of minute, air breathing, freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Distribution and biotope

* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 5 March 2007.]
* It is mentioned in annexes II and IV of Habitats Directive.

* The Czech Republic - critically endangered (CR). [Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.] It's Conservation status in 2004-2006 is bad (U2) in report for European commission in accordance with Habitats Directive. [Dušek J., Hošek M. & Kolářová J. (2007) Hodnotící zpráva o stavu z hlediska ochrany evropsky významných druhů a typů přírodních stanovišť v České republice za rok 2004-2006. - Ochrana přírody, 62(5): appendix 5:I-IV. (in Czech language)]
* England - vulnerable (VU) [UK Biodiversity Action Plan http://www.ukbap.org.uk/UKPlans.aspx?ID=99] , listed in List of endangered species in the British Isles
* Germany - critically endangered ("vom Aussterben bedroht") [Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2]
* Netherlands [http://www.anemoon.org/anm/voorlopige-kaarten/zoetwatermollusken/wetenschappelijk/anisus-vorticulus]
* Poland
* Slovakia
* ...

Biotope: freshwater bodies.

References

External links

* [http://stanoviste.natura2000.cz/index.php?page=zivocich_detail&ZivocichID=135 "Anisus vorticulus" and its distribution in the Czech Republic with map] (in Czech language)