Ancylus fluviatilis
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Ancylus fluviatilis is a species of very small, freshwater, air-breathing limpet
, an aquatic
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the tribe Ancylini within the family Planorbidae
, the ram's horn snails and their allies.
Limpet
Limpet is a common name for a number of different kinds of saltwater and freshwater snails ; it is applied to those snails that have a simple shell which is more or less conical in shape, and either is not spirally coiled, or appears not to be coiled in the adult snails.The name limpet is most...
, an aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the tribe Ancylini within the family Planorbidae
Planorbidae
Planorbidae, common name the ramshorn snails or ram's horn snails, is a family of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks....
, the ram's horn snails and their allies.
Distribution and conservation status
This species occur in Europe in the following countries and islands:- The British Isles: Great Britain and Ireland
- Czech Republic
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Slovakia
- France
- and others
Further reading
- Streit B. (1981). "Food searching and exploitation by a primary consumer (Ancylus fluviatilis) in a stochastic environment: Nonrandom movement pattern". Revue Suisse Zoologie 88: 887-895.
