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The Chinese mystery snail, black snail, or trapdoor snail (Cipangopaludina chinensis), is a large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae. [3][4] The Japanese variety of this species is black and usually a dark green, moss-like alga covers the shell. [citation needed] The name ...
Planorbella trivolvis, an air-breathing ramshorn snail. Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks that live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs to major rivers.
Vittina natalensis, commonly known as spotted nerite or zebra nerite, [ 2][ 3] is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites. [ 4] It returns to brackish waters to reproduce. This is a popular aquarium snail, sold because it looks attractive and eats algae in ...
Neritona juttingae. (Mienis, 1973) [1] Synonyms [1] Nerita aculeata Gmelin, 1791 (unavailable: a junior homonym of Nerita aculeata O.F. Müller, 1774) Nerita aculeata Gmelin, 1791, non Müller, 1774. Neritina juttingae Mienis, 1973. Neritona juttingae is a species of a freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Neritidae. [2]
Planorbis contrarius O. F. Müller, 1774 (junior synonym) Marisa cornuarietis, common name the Colombian ramshorn apple snail, is a species of large freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snail family. These snails are popular in aquariums, and are also used in the wild as a ...
The term ramshorn snail or ram's horn snail is used in two different ways. In the aquarium trade it is used to describe various kinds of freshwater snails whose shells are planispiral, meaning that the shell is a flat coil. Such shells resemble a coil of rope, or (as the name suggests) a ram 's horn. In a more general natural history context ...