Hippeutis complanatus, or the flat ram's-horn snail, is a species of minute air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Hippeutis |
| Species: | H. complanatus
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List
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Hippeutis complanatus is the type species of the genus Hippeutis.
Distribution edit
The species is found in the Palearctic zone, including Europe.
- Latvia
- Czech Republic - least concern (LC)[3]
- Slovakia
- Poland
- Germany
- Austria
- Netherlands[4]
- Sweden
- British Isles: Great Britain, Ireland
Shell description edit
This minute shell is almost perfectly planispiral and shaped like a lens. The whorls overlap one another. The shell color varies from offwhite to a brownish yellow.
Ecology edit
This snail lives in ponds and ditches, and prefers calcium-rich waters.[5]
References edit
- ^ 2011 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 28 December 2022.
- ^ Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th edition. - Vermes. Testacea: 700-781. Holmiae. (Salvius).
- ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
- ^ (in Dutch) Hippeutis complanatus, ANEMOON
- ^ Janus, Horst, 1965. ‘’The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs’’, Burke, London
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hippeutis complanatus.
- Hippeutis complanatus at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
- Hippeutis images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life