- Source: Ampullaceana ampla
Ampullaceana ampla is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
Distribution
This species is found in European countries including:
Germany
Poland
Czech Republic
Slovakia
and others in Central and Eastern Europe.Then across the Palearctic to Siberia' The species lives in calm parts of rivers and lakes. They mostly stay on the shoreline near the water surface. A. ampla is relatively rare.
References
Vinarski, M.V.; Glöer, P. (2007). Taxonomical notes on Euro-Siberian freshwater molluscs. 1. Turbo patulus Da Costa, 1778 is not a senior synonym of Limneus ampla Hartmann, 1821 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) Ruthenica. 17(1-2): 55-63
External links
Media related to Radix ampla at Wikimedia Commons
