Anisus spirorbis

Taxobox
name = "Anisus spirorbis"
status = NE
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Planorbidae
genus = "Anisus"
species = "A. spirorbis"
binomial = "Anisus spirorbis"
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758) [Linnaeus, C. 1758. "Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis". 10th edition. - Vermes. Testacea: 700-781. Holmiae. (Salvius).]

"Anisus spirorbis" is a species of small freshwater air-breathing snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Distribution and conservation status

It is not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 27 June 2007.]

* Czech Republic - vulnerable (VU) [ [http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic] ]
* Germany - high endangered ("Stark gefährdet") [Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2]
* Poland
* Slovakia
* ...

Ecology

Parasites:
* This species serves as first intermediate host for "Prosthogonimus ovatus" [ [http://wildlife1.wildlifeinformation.org/S/0zAPlat_Trematod/Plag_Hapl_Prosthogonimus/Prosthogonimus_ovatus.htm Prosthogonimus ovatus (Parasite Species Summary) ] ]

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