| Choanomphalus amauronius | |
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| an apertural view of the shell of Choanomphalus amauronius amauronius | |
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| Subfamily: | Planorbinae |
| Tribe: | Planorbini |
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| Species: | C. amauronius |
| Binomial name | |
| Choanomphalus amauronius Bourguignat, 1860[2] | |
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Valvatomphalus angulatus B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1925 | |
Choanomphalus amauronius is a species of freshwater air-breathing snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids.
Subspecies
- Choanomphalus amauronius amauronius Bourguignat, 1860[3]
- Choanomphalus amauronius angulatus (B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1925)[3][4]
- Choanomphalus amauronius westerlundianus Lindholm, 1909[3][5] The subspecific name westerlundianus is in honor of Swedish malacologist Carl Agardh Westerlund.[5]
Distribution
This species is found in Lake Baikal, Russia and in Angara River.[3]
Description
The width of the shell is 5–6 mm.[2] The height of the shell is 4 mm.[2]
 Apical view of the shell. |
 Umbilical view of the shell. |
References
- ↑ IUCN (2013). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 May 2014.
- 1 2 3 (in French) Bourguignat J. R. (1860). "Monographie du genre Choanomphalus". Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, série 2, 12: 527–531. plate 23, fig. 6–8.
- 1 2 3 4 5 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.
- ↑ (in Polish) Dybowski B. & Grochmalicki J. (1925). "Przyczynki doo znajomości mięczaków jeziora Bajkalskiego. (Contributions à la connaissance des Mollusques du lac Baical)". Wladislaviidae nom. fam. Kosmos (Lwow), 50: 819–881. page 878, figs. 29–31.
- 1 2 (in German) Lindholm W. A. (1909). "Die Mollusken des Baikal-Sees (Gastropoda et Pelecypoda) systematisch und zoogeographisch bearb". Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer zoologische Expedition nach dem Baikal-See unter Leitung des Prof. Alexis Korotneff i. d. J. 1900-1902, 4. Kiew und Berlin, Fridländer und Sohn: 1–104. page 20–21, plate 2, fig. 1, 3.
External links
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