Planorbarius

Planorbarius
A live individual of Planorbarius corneus carrying the shell with the umbilicus uppermost as normal
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Planorbinae
Tribe: Coretini
Genus: Planorbarius
Duméril, 1806
Type species
Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species

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Synonyms
  • Coretus Gray, 1847; (junior synonym)
  • Planorbis (Deserticoretus) Starobogatov, 1990; (junior synonym)
  • Planorbis (Coretus) Gray, 1847; (junior synonym)
  • Planorbis (Corneana) Servain, 1888; (junior subjective synonym)
  • Planorbis (Spirodiscus) Stein, 1850; (junior homonym of Spirodiscus Ehrenberg, 1830)

Planorbarius is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae (the ramshorn snails), which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells.

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