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White Gyro
Gyraulus albus
Gyraulus albus, common name white ramshorn, is a small species of freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Gyraulus albus is the type species of the genus Gyraulus.
From the article Gyraulus albus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The shell of this species is rather small, reaching a height of 1.3 - 1.8 mm and a width of 4 – 7 mm. This shell has a discoid shape with 4 - 4½ body whorls that expand in the direction of the aperture. This aperture and the whorls are curved and do not have a keel. The shell of this species is white (sometimes darkened by mud deposits) and has a characteristic spiral sculpture.
Range & habitat
Palearctic:
Belgium Czech Republic - least concern (LC) Germany Hungary Netherlands Poland Slovakia Great Britain Ireland
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 336765.