Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Truncatelloidea Genus Mercuria Phylum Mollusca | Class Gastropoda Family Hydrobiidae Scientific name Mercuria confusa Rank Species | |
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Similar Spire snail, Assiminea grayana, Auriculinella bidentata, Pisidium pulchellum, Acicula fusca | ||
Mercuria confusa, common name the '"swollen spire snail", is a northern European species of small brackish water or freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.
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This species only tolerates very low salinities, and is perhaps better characterized as a freshwater snail.
Description
The 3-4 mm. high shell is fragile and translucent yellow-white in colour (but often coated with dark deposits).The animal is entirely and uniformly pale and has pale tentacles.Mercuria confusa has a proportionately larger body whorl than other hydrobiids.
Distribution
This species occurs on the coasts of:
References
Mercuria confusa Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA