Stagnicola palustris
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| Four shells of Stagnicola palustris | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Lymnaeinae |
| Genus: | Stagnicola |
| Species: | S. palustris |
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Stagnicola palustris (O. F. Müller, 1774) |
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Stagnicola palustris is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
Stagnicola turricula is a synonym of Stagnicola palustris, because they are genetically independent, but it is still sometimes listed separately.
The dimensions of the shell of an adult of this species are from about 10 to 18 mm in length, and about 6 to 10 mm in width.
This species of snail occurs in European countries and islands including:
This snail lives in shallow, well-aerated freshwater habitats.
Stagnicola palustris-like snails in the North America are named Stagnicola elodes, but it can be the same species.
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