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Ceratophallus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Planorbidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Planorboidea

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Burnupia, Choanomphalus, Gyraulus costulatus, Menetus

Ceratophallus is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells. Snails in this genus are found in Africa and some Indian Ocean islands.

Species

Species within this genus include:

  • Ceratophallus apertus
  • Ceratophallus bicarinatus
  • Ceratophallus coretus
  • Ceratophallus crassus
  • Ceratophallus faini
  • Ceratophallus gibbonsi (Nelson)
  • Ceratophallus kisumiensis (Preston, 1912)
  • Ceratophallus natalensis (Krauss)
  • Ceratophallus pelecystoma
  • Ceratophallus socotrensis (Godwin-Austen, 1883)
  • Ceratophallus yesimit Brown, 2001

    • References

    Ceratophallus Wikipedia
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