Choanomphalus

Choanomphalus
An apertural view of the shell of Choanomphalus maacki
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Planorbinae
Tribe: Planorbini
Genus: Choanomphalus
Gerstfeldt, 1859
Type species
Choanomphalus maacki
Gerstfeldt, 1859

Choanomphalus is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells.

Species

Species within the genus Choanomphalus include:

Synonyms:

References

  1. ↑ Gerstfeldt G. (1859). "Ueber Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken Sibiriens und Amur-Gebietes". Mémoires des Savants étrangers 9: 507-548. page 527.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Kantor, Yu I.; Vinarski, M. V.; Schileyko, A. A.; Sysoev, A. V. (March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories" (PDF). Ruthenica. Archived from the original on March 22, 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 IUCN (2013). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 16 May 2014.
  4. ↑ Choanomphalus baicalensis. NCBI.
  5. ↑ Sitnikova T. Ya. (1999). "Variability of the gastropod mollusk Choanomphalus mongolicus shell from Lake Hovsgol". Russian Journal of Zoology 78(7): 413-4??. abstract Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine