A live individual of Ancylus fluviatilis, anterior end towards the left
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Subclass:
Heterobranchia
Superorder:
Hygrophila
Family:
Planorbidae
Subfamily:
Ancylinae
Tribe:
Ancylini Rafinesque, 1815[1]
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Ancylidae
Pseudancylinae Walker, 1923 (inv.)
Ancylini is a tribe of small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies. This tribe used to be treated as a family; the current taxonomic placement within Planorbidae is according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
^Rafinesque C. S. (1815). Analyse de la Nature ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Palermo, 223 pp.
Ancylini is a tribe of small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails...
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....
air-breathing limpet, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the tribe Ancylini within the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies....
Superfamily: Planorboidea Family: Planorbidae Subfamily: Planorbinae Tribe: Ancylini Genus: Laevapex Walker 1903 Type species Ancylus fuscus C. B. Adams, 1841...
air-breathing limpet, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the tribe Ancylini within the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies....
Ancylidae has been reduced in the new taxonomy to the status of tribe Ancylini Rafinesque, 1815 of the subfamily Planorbinae Rafinesque, 1815 of the family...
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