Planorbidae, common name the ramshorn snails or ram's horn snails, is a family of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs...
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These are the dextral (right-handed) pond snails. About 100 species. Planorbidae - "rams horn" snails, with a worldwide distribution. About 250 species...
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all gastropods is hemocyanin, but one freshwater pulmonate family, the Planorbidae, have hemoglobin as the respiratory protein. In one large group of sea...
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discharge into the mantle cavity. Exceptions to the above are the molluscs Planorbidae or ram's horn snails, which are air-breathing snails that use iron-based...
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Ramshorn snail (category Planorbidae)
precisely to mean those aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae that have planispiral coiled shells. Ramshorn snails have been bred for...
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air-breathing freshwater snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails. The species is endemic to Florida and is found...
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List of molluscs of Botswana (section Planorbidae)
Botswana molluscs are represented by 63 native species (13 bivalves, 24 freshwater snails, 24 land snails and two slugs) and by four introduced species:...
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List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene (section Ramshorn snails (family Planorbidae))
This is a list of North American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11...
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spiral growth of the shell of the mollusc Anisus septemgyratus, family Planorbidae. A hair whorl is a patch of hair growing in a circular direction around...
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Amnicolidae) and Benedictiinae (part of the Lithoglyphidae), and the families Planorbidae and Valvatidae. All endemics have been recorded between 20 and 30 m (66...
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family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells. All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral...
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attempt to control other medically problematic snails in the family Planorbidae: Bulinus species and Biomphalaria species, which serve as intermediate...
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represent a large part of the shell, e.g. in some species in the family Planorbidae, such as the genus Segmentina. The body chamber or living chamber in...
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air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonates belonging to the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies. Biomphalaria is the type genus...
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have gills, while some freshwater gastropods have evolved lungs (e.g. Planorbidae) and some amphibious ones have both (e.g. Ampullariidae). Many species...
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(July 2010). "The phylogeography of Indoplanorbis exustus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Asia". Parasites & Vectors. 3: 57. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-3-57. PMC 2914737...
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Planorbarius corneus (category Planorbidae)
freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sinistral or left-coiling...
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Choanomphalus aorus (category Planorbidae)
air-breathing snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. This species is found in Lake...
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Klein, J.; Eccles, D. H. (1967). "Endemic species of Bulinus (Mollusca: Planorbidae) in Lake Malawi (= Lake Nyasa)". Journal of Zoology. 151 (1): 199–209...
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Martínez (2018). "A new species of Biomphalaria Preston, 1910 (Gastropoda, Planorbidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uruguay". Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia...
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trematode parasites that sequentially infect freshwater snails in the family Planorbidae (ramshorn snails) as first intermediate hosts, fish and larval amphibians...
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Afrogyrorbis (category Planorbidae)
Afrogyrorbis is a genus of gastropods in the family Planorbidae. Afrogyrorbis bicarinatus (Mandahl-Barth, 1954) Afrogyrorbis blanfordi (Brown, 1973) Afrogyrorbis...
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air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails. Biomphalaria choanomphala has a discoidal, brownish-yellow...
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in terms of number of species are, the Lymnaeidae (pond snails), the Planorbidae (ramshorn snails) and the Physidae (pouch or bubble snails). These are...
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Lentorbis (category Planorbidae)
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails. All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells. This genus lives...
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Ancylini (category Planorbidae)
family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies. This tribe used to be treated as a family; the current taxonomic placement within Planorbidae is...
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Isidorella (category Planorbidae)
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails. All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells. Species of Isidorella...
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As of 19 August 2018, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has identified 3,005 critically endangered species, subspecies, stocks and subpopulations...
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martinicensis Family Physidae Fish Lake physa (Physella microstriata) Family Planorbidae Shoal sprite (Amphigyra alabamensis) Neoplanorbis carinatus Neoplanorbis...
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freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails. Biomphalaria glabrata is an intermediate snail...
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