''Bathyomphalus contortus'' is a
species
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of small air-breathing
freshwater snail, an
aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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in the family
Planorbidae
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, the
ram
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's horn snails and their allies.
Distribution
The distribution of this species is
Palearctic:Eurasian Wide-temperate.
It occurs in countries and islands including:
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Great Britain
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Czech Republic
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[ Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. nnotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics. '']Malacologica Bohemoslovaca
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- least concern (LC)
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Germany
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Netherlands
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Poland
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Slovakia
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Description
The 1-2 × 3-6 mm
shell
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has up to 7-8 densely coiled and rounded whorls with deep suture. The whorls are higher than wide, the lower side is almost flat, the upper side with a large umbilicus which is more than 1/3 of the shell diameter. The aperture is narrow. Shell colour is reddish horny brown, often with black or brown encrustations, finely striated. The animal is blackish dark red, tentacles very long, eyes small and black.
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Habitat
This small snail lives in freshwater habitats especially small, impoverished water-bodies and drains and marshy or peaty pools. It is also found in floodplain marshes. It seldom occurs in larger water-bodies. ''Bathyomphalus contortus'' is tolerant of acidic conditions as is '' Radix balthica''. In Ireland it is often the only species present in pools or drains in and around raised bogs.
References
External links
''Bathyomphalus'' images
at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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Planorbidae
Palearctic molluscs
Gastropods described in 1758
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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