Bathyomphalus contortus

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Bathyomphalus contortus
Conservation status
NE
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Heterobranchia
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Bathyomphalus
Species: B. contortus
Binomial name
Bathyomphalus contortus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Bathyomphalus contortus is a small species of freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

[edit] Distribution

Palearctic: It is not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [1]

[edit] Habitat

In freshwater biotopes.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 29 February 2008.
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