''Stagnicola palustris'' is a species 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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mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

Taxonomy

''Stagnicola turricula'' is a synonym of ''Stagnicola palustris'', because they are not genetically independent, but ''S. curricula'' is still sometimes listed separately.

Description

The dimensions of the shell of an adult of this species are from about 10 to 18 mm in length, and about 6 to 10 mm in width.

Distribution

This species of snail occurs in European countries and islands including: * Croatia * ''Stagnicola palustris'' – Czech Republic 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'', Suppl. 1: 1–37
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– data deficient (DD) * Germany – (''Arten der Vorwarnliste'') * Great Britain * Netherlands * Poland * Slovakia

Habitat

This snail lives in shallow, well-aerated freshwater habitats.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q3199672 Lymnaeidae Gastropods described in 1774 Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller