Gyraulus chinensis
Gyraulus chinensis is a species of small freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
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| Subfamily: | Planorbinae |
| Tribe: | Planorbini |
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| Species: | G. chinensis |
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Distribution
This species is native to Asia.
The non-indigenous distribution for this species includes:
- Czech Republic as a "hothouse alien"[2]
- Great Britain, as a "hothouse alien"
- Netherlands[3]
References
- Dunker G. (1848). "Diagnoses specierum novarum generis Planorbis collectionis Cumingianæ". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 16: 40-43.
- Beran L. & Glöer P. (2006) Gyraulus chinensis (Dunker, 1848) – a new greenhouse species for the Czech Republic (Gastropoda: Planorbidae). – Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 5: 25–28. Online serial at <http://mollusca.sav.sk> 12-May-2006.
- (in Dutch) Gittenberger E., Janssen A. W., Kuijper W. J., Kuiper J. G. J., Meijer T., van der Velde G. & de Vries J. N. (2004). Nederlandse zoetwatermollusken. Nederlandse Fauna 2. KNNV uitgeverij . 288 pp., ISBN 978-90-5011-201-7. 152-153 Archived 2007-10-23 at the Wayback Machine.
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