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Choanomphalus

Choanomphalus is a genus of air-breathing freshwater 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.

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Choanomphalus
An apertural view of the shell of Choanomphalus maacki
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Planorbinae
Tribe: Planorbini
Genus: Choanomphalus
Gerstfeldt, 18591

Choanomphalus is a genus of air-breathing freshwater 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.

Species

Species within the genus Choanomphalus include:

  • Choanomphalus amauronius Bourguignat, 18602
    • Choanomphalus amauronius angulatus (B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1925)2
    • Choanomphalus amauronius westerlundianus Lindholm, 19092
  • Choanomphalus annuliformis Kozhov, 19362
  • Choanomphalus anomphalus W. Dybowski, 19013
  • Choanomphalus aorus Bourguignat, 18602
  • Choanomphalus baicalensis4
  • Choanomphalus bathybius Beckman & Starobogatov, 19752
    • Choanomphalus bathybius meridianus Beckman & Starobogatov, 19752
  • Choanomphalus cryptomphalus W. Dybowski, 19013
  • Choanomphalus eurystomus Lindholm, 19093
  • Choanomphalus gerstfeldtianus Lindholm, 19092
  • Choanomphalus grachevi Sitnikova & Röpstorf, 19992
  • Choanomphalus huzhirensis Beckman & Starobogatov, 19752
  • Choanomphalus hyaliniiformis Moskvicheva & Dworiadkin, 19802
  • Choanomphalus incertus Lindholm, 19092
    • Choanomphalus incertus mesospiralis B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 19252
  • Choanomphalus korotnevi Lindholm, 19092
  • Choanomphalus kozhovi Beckman & Starobogatov, 19752
  • Choanomphalus lindholmi Beckman & Starobogatov, 19753
  • Choanomphalus maacki Gerstfeldt, 18593 - type species
    • Choanomphalus maacki andrussowianus (Lindholm, 1909)2
    • Choanomphalus maacki elatior Lindholm, 19092
  • Choanomphalus microtrochus Lindholm, 19093
  • Choanomphalus mongolicus5
  • Choanomphalus okhoticus Prozorova & Starobogatov, 19973
  • Choanomphalus omphalotus W. Dybowski, 19013
  • Choanomphalus parvus Kozhov, 19362
  • Choanomphalus patulaeformis Lindholm, 19092
  • Choanomphalus planorbiformis Beckman & Starobogatov, 19752
  • Choanomphalus pygmaeus Lindholm, 19093
  • Choanomphalus schrencki or Choanomphalus schrenkii W. Dybowski, 18752
  • Choanomphalus valvatoides W. Dybowski, 18752

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References

References

  1. Gerstfeldt G. (1859). "Ueber Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken Sibiriens und Amur-Gebietes". Mémoires des Savants étrangers 9: 507-548. page 527.
  2. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.
  3. IUCN (2013). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 16 May 2014.
  4. Choanomphalus baicalensis. NCBI.
  5. Sitnikova T. Ya. (1999). "Variability of the gastropod mollusk Choanomphalus mongolicus shell from Lake Hovsgol". Russian Journal of Zoology 78(7): 413-4??. abstract Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine