''Catascopia terebra'' (Westerlund, 1885) (formerly known as ''Catascopia occulta'') is a

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of air-breathing

freshwater snail Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs ...

, an aquatic

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

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in the family

Lymnaeidae Lymnaeidae, common name the pond snails, is a taxonomic family of small to large air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks, that belong to the clade Hygrophila. Lymnaeidae is the only family within the superfamily ...

, the pond snails.

Taxonomy

Some authors classify this species as ''Stagnicola terebra'', because the genus ''

Catascopia ''Catascopia'' is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae Lymnaeidae, common name the pond snails, is a taxonomic family of small to large air-breathing freshwater snails, a ...

'' Meier-Brook & Bargues, 2002 should not be distinguished based on DNA analysis only (genera should be distinguished morphologically and anatomically).

Distribution

This species of snail is found in the

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in two localities only: in a small

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near

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in the Eastern Bohemia and in temporary pool near the inflow of the

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into the

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in Moravia,Beran L. (2008). "A contribution to distribution of genus ''Stagnicola'' and ''Catascopia'' (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) in the Czech Republic". ''

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'' 7: 70-73
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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. ''

'', Suppl. 1: 1-37
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and other areas.

Habitat

It inhabits freshwater bodies.

References

Lymnaeidae {{Lymnaeidae-stub