Anisus leucostoma
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| Anisus leucostoma | |
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| Shells of Anisus leucostoma | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Anisus |
| Species: | A. leucostoma |
| Binomial name | |
| Anisus leucostoma | |
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Planorbis leucostoma Millet, 1813 | |
Anisus leucostoma is a European species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.
Glöer (2002)[3] considered Anisus septemgyratus (Rossmässler, 1835) as a junior synonym of Anisus leucostoma (Millet, 1813). Later Glöer & Meier-Brook (2008)[4] used name Anisus septemgyratus again.
Anisus leucostoma may be a narrow-whorled morphotype of Anisus spirorbis.[5]
Shell description
The shell of this species is about 8 mm in maximum dimension, usually planispiral and tightly coiled, with a white rib in the aperture.[6]
