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.

Choanomphalus
An apertural view of the shell of Choanomphalus maacki
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Planorbinae
Tribe: Planorbini
Genus: Choanomphalus
Gerstfeldt, 1859[1]

Species

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Species within the genus Choanomphalus include:

Synonyms:

References

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  1. ^ Gerstfeldt G. (1859). "Ueber Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken Sibiriens und Amur-Gebietes". Mémoires des Savants étrangers 9: 507-548. page 527.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x 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. ^ a b c d e f g h i 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