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Ancylastrum

Ancylastrum is a genus of air-breathing freshwater limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

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Ancylastrum
Shell of Ancylastrum cumingianus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Ancylastrum
Bourguignat, 18531

Ancylastrum is a genus of air-breathing freshwater limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

Species

The genus Ancylastrum includes the following species:

Species inquirenda
  • Ancylastrum dextrorsum Clessin, 1907
  • Ancylastrum issykulense Clessin, 1907
  • Ancylastrum ovatum Clessin, 1907
  • Ancylastrum turkestanicum Clessin, 1907
References

References

  1. Bourguignat (1853). J. Conchyliol. 4: 60, 63.
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