Ancylus
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Ancylus Temporal range: Cenozoic |
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| Ancylus fluviatilis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Planorboidea |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Subfamily: | Planorbinae |
| Tribe: | Ancylini |
| Genus: |
Ancylus O. F. Müller, 1773 |
| Synonyms | |
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Pseudancylus B. Walker, 1921 (status uncertain) |
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Pseudancylus B. Walker, 1921 (status uncertain)
Ancylus is a genus of very small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets. They are aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the tribe Ancylini within the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.
The genus is known throughout the Cenozoic.
Species in the genus Ancylus include:
A cladogram based on sequences of mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA and (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of Ancylus by Albrecht et al. (2006):
Ancylus sp. C
Ancylus sp. D
Ancylus sp. B
Ancylus sp. A
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