Anisus spirorbis
Species of gastropod
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Anisus spirorbis is a species of small freshwater air-breathing snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.[2]
| Anisus spirorbis | |
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| Five shells of Anisus spirorbis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Anisus |
| Species: | A. spirorbis |
| Binomial name | |
| Anisus spirorbis | |
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Taxonomy
Anisus spirorbis may be a broad-whorled morphotype of Anisus leucostoma.[3]
Distribution
Europe to Siberia.
This species occurs in countries that include:
- Czech Republic[4] – vulnerable (VU)[5]
- Slovakia[4]
- Germany – high endangered (Stark gefährdet)[6]
- Poland
- Ireland
- Great Britain
- Uzbekistan[7]
- Siberia
Description
The shell is 1 to 1.5 mm high and measures 4 to 5.5 mm in diameter. It has approximately 4.5 whorls. The mouth is oblique to the axis of the coil. The whorls are increase relatively rapidly (in relation to other Anisus species). The shell is yellowish horn coloured and bears thin growth strips. The body of the animal is grey-brownish black with lighter colored tentacles.
Ecology
Parasites:
- This species serves as first intermediate host for Prosthogonimus ovatus[8]
- Dendritobilharzia loossi – Anisus spirorbis is an intermediate host.[7]
