Ancylus fluviatilis
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| Ancylus fluviatilis O. F. Müller, 1774 |
Ancylus fluviatilis is a species of very small, freshwater, air-breathing limpet, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae. (It is sometimes classified in its own family, the Ancylidae).
This freshwater limpet is rheophile (it lives in fast running waters).
These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch". This serves as a gill as, in their non-tidal habitat, these limpets never reach the surface for air.
Distribution and conservation status
Europe.
- Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [1]
References
- 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 14 July 2007.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Ancylus fluviatilis". Image Credit.
