Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Planorboidea Subfamily Planorbinae Phylum Mollusca Rank Species | Class Gastropoda Family Planorbidae Tribe Planorbini Genus Anisus | |
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Similar Anisus, Anisus calculiformis, Anisus spirorbis, Hippeutis complanatus, Bathyomphalus contortus | ||
Anisus septemgyratus is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
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Taxonomy
Glöer (2002) considered Anisus septemgyratus (Rossmässler, 1835) as a junior synonym of Anisus leucostoma (Millet, 1813). Later Glöer & Meier-Brook (2008) used name Anisus septemgyratus again.
Horsák et al. (2013) consider Anisus calculiformis (Sandberger, 1874) as a synonym of Anisus septemgyratus.
Distribution
This species occurs in countries and islands including:
Description
The number of prostate diverticles ranges from 30 to more than 50.
References
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