Gyraulus chinensis
| Gyraulus chinensis | |
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| A group of shells of Gyraulus chinensis, scale bar in mm | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Gyraulus |
| Species: | G. chinensis
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| Gyraulus chinensis | |
Gyraulus chinensis is a species of small freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Distribution
This species is native to Asia.
The non-indigenous distribution for this species includes:
- Czech Republic as a "hothouse alien"[2]
- Great Britain, as a "hothouse alien"
- Netherlands[3]
References
- ^ Dunker G. (1848). "Diagnoses specierum novarum generis Planorbis collectionis Cumingianæ". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 16: 40-43.
- ^ Beran, Luboš; Glöer, Peter (2006-05-12). "Gyraulus chinensis (Dunker, 1848) – a new greenhouse species for the Czech Republic (Gastropoda: Planorbidae)". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca. 5: 25–28. doi:10.5817/MaB2006-5-25. ISSN 1336-6939.
- ^ (in Dutch) Gittenberger E., Janssen A. W., Kuijper W. J., Kuiper J. G. J., Meijer T., van der Velde G. & de Vries J. N. (2004). Nederlandse zoetwatermollusken. Nederlandse Fauna 2. KNNV uitgeverij . 288 pp., ISBN 978-90-5011-201-7. 152-153 Archived 2007-10-23 at the Wayback Machine.
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