''Planorbarius'' is a

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Planorbidae Planorbidae, common name the ramshorn snails or ram's horn snails, is a family of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs. Unlike most molluscs, the blood of ram's horn snails contains iron-based hemoglobin ins ...

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's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells.Neubauer, Thomas A.; Bouchet, P. (2014). Planorbarius Duméril, 1805. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818481 on 2014-11-19

Species

Species within this genus include: * † '' Planorbarius barettii'' (Sacco, 1886) * † '' Planorbarius borellii'' (Brusina, 1892) * ''

Planorbarius corneus ''Planorbarius corneus'', common name the great ramshorn, is a relatively large species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sin ...

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Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

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Systema Naturae ' (originally in Latin written ' with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy. Although the system, now known as binomial nomen ...

per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis''. 10th edition. - Vermes. Testacea: 700-781. Holmiae. (Salvius). * † '' Planorbarius cornu (''Brongniart, 1810) * † '' Planorbarius cornucopia'' (Baily, 1858) * † '' Planorbarius crassus'' (Serres, 1844) * † '' Planorbarius garsdorfensis'' Schlickum & Strauch, 1979 * † '' Planorbarius halavatsi'' Neubauer, Harzhauser, Kroh, Georgopoulou & Mandic, 2014 * † '' Planorbarius heriacensis'' (Fontannes, 1876) * † '' Planorbarius incrassatus'' (Rambur, 1862) * † '' Planorbarius isseli'' (Sacco, 1886) * † '' Planorbarius mantelli'' (Dunker, 1848) * † '' Planorbarius margoi'' (Lörenthey, 1894) * ''

Planorbarius metidjensis ''Planorbarius metidjensis'' is a freshwater lung snail. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Planorbarius metidjensis (Forbes, 1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails ...

'' (Forbes, 1838) * † '' Planorbarius philippei'' (Locard, 1883) * † '' Planorbarius praecorneus'' (Fischer & Tournouër, 1873) * † '' Planorbarius reticulatus'' Roshka, 1973 * † '' Planorbarius romani'' (Jodot, 1958) * † ''

Planorbarius royoi ''Planorbarius'' is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, Aquatic animal, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Planorbidae, the sheep, ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sinistral or left-coilin ...

(''Jodot, 1958) * † '' Planorbarius sansaniensis'' (Noulet, 1854) * † '' Planorbarius solidus'' (Thomä, 1845) * † '' Planorbarius striatus'' Roshka, 1973 * † '' Planorbarius sulekianus'' (Brusina, 1874) * † '' Planorbarius thiollieri'' (Michaud, 1855) * † '' Planorbarius turkovici'' (Gorjanović-Kramberger, 1899) * † '' Planorbarius vezici'' (Brusina, 1897) * † '' Planorbarius villatoyensis'' (Jodot, 1958) ;Species brought into synonymy: * † ''Planorbarius borelli'' (Brusina, 1892): synonym of † ''Planorbarius borellii'' (Brusina, 1892) * † ''Planorbarius cornus'' (Brongniart, 1810): synonym of † ''Planorbarius cornu'' (Brongniart, 1810) * † ''Planorbarius grandis'' (Halaváts, 1903): synonym of † ''Planorbarius halavatsi'' Neubauer, Harzhauser, Kroh, Georgopoulou & Mandic, 2014 * † ''Planorbarius thiollierei'' (Michaud, 1855): synonym of † ''Planorbarius thiollieri'' (Michaud, 1855)

Description

All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells. Planorbarius_corneus_top

References

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