Hippeutis complanatus

Hippeutis complanatus, also known as Segmentina complanata, 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.

Distribution

The species is found in the Palearctic zone, including Europe.

• Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE)
• Czech Republic - least concern (LC)
• Germany
• Netherlands
• Slovakia
• Sweden
• British Isles
• ...

Habitat

This snail lives in ponds and ditches, and prefers calcium-rich waters.

Shell Description

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.

References

• Janus, Horst, 1965. ‘’The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs’’, Burke, London

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