Radix peregra

Taxobox
name = "Radix peregra"

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image_caption = shell of "Radix peregra"
image_width = 225px
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Lymnaeidae
genus = "Radix"
species = "R. peregra"
binomial = "Radix peregra"
binomial_authority = (O. F. Müller, 1774)

"Radix peregra", previously known as "Lymnaea peregra" or "Lymnaea pereger", is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

There is more than one named variety or form of this snail.

Distribution

This small pond snail is found in Europe, Newfoundland and north Asia.

Habitat

This species is common in slow-moving or still water.

ynonyms

* "Radix labiata" (Rossmässler, 1835)
* "Lymnaea peregra"
* "Lymnaea pereger"

References

* Janus, Horst, 1965. ‘’The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs’’, Burke, London