Specimen image via iDigBio · CC0
Helisoma
Sign in to saveHelisoma is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,991
- With media
- 977
- Family
- Planorbidae
- Collections
- PRI, LACM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UF, SDNHM, MSB
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, Netherlands
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Planorbidae
- Image
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.372960 - Helisoma anceps (Menke, 1830) - Planorbidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Helisoma
- taxon name
- Helisoma
- taxon rank
- genus
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Species
- References
Helisoma is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Helisoma snails are an intermediate host of Megalodiscus temperatus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Helisoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.