Segmentina
Encyclopedia
Segmentina is a genus
of small, air-breathing, freshwater snail
s, aquatic
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
s in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails.
Albrecht et al. (2007) have confirmed its placement in the tribe Segmentinini within subfamily Planorbinae.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of small, air-breathing, freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s, 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...
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
Micromollusk
A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...
s in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails.
Albrecht et al. (2007) have confirmed its placement in the tribe Segmentinini within subfamily Planorbinae.