Miratesta celebensis

Miratesta celebensis
Miratesta celebensis
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Bulininae
Tribe: Miratestini
Genus: Miratesta
Species: M. celebensis
Binomial name
Miratesta celebensis
P. & F. Sarasin, 1898

Miratesta celebensis is a species of freshwater air-breathing snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. Like all other planorbids it has a sinistral or left-coiling shell.

This species is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.

References

  1. ^ Bouchet P. (2000). Miratesta celebensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.