Planorbella duryi
Appearance
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Apical and apertural view of a shell of Planorbella duryi. Scale bar is 10 mm. | |
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Planorbella duryi (Wetherby, 1879)
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Planorbella duryi, common name the Seminole rams-horn, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Distribution
This species of snail is endemic to Florida, United States. [1]
It has been introduced to Hawaii and lives in the wild there. [2]
It is an introduced species in various European islands and countries including: [3]
- Great Britain as a "hothouse alien"
- Ireland as a "hothouse alien"
- Poland
- Hungary
- Parts of Southern Nigeria [e.g Ogun State, Lagos, Oyo]
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