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Planorbis

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EntityQ81208· pop 13· linked from 48 articles

Planorbis is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells.

In the Vinony graph

Vinony's link graph records 48 inbound references to Planorbis, and connects out to Mollusca, Planorbidae and Gyraulus parvus.

It is catalogued under topics including Cretaceous gastropods, Eocene gastropods and Gastropod genera.

Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. FamilyPlanorbidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations recorded63,377

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
1,433
With media
118
Family
Planorbidae
Collections
RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, SDNHM, UCM
Recorded in
Dr Congo, United States, Uganda, Ethiopia, Algeria, Ecuador, Morocco, Mexico

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Planorbidae
Image
Planorbis planorbis drawing.jpg
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Commons category
Planorbis
taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Planorbis
topic's main category
Category:Planorbis
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