- Source: Aplexa rivalis
Aplexa rivalis is a species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae, a family which are sometimes known as the bladder snails.
Description
Rivalis Aplexa has a thin shell levorotatory, featuring a large oval opening with parietal callus lip sharp and wide. The tentacles are filiform and foot is very long in the back. Ovigerous masses are constituted by transparent oval eggs variable number embedded in a gelatinous mass.
Distribution
This species occurs in:
Brazil
Venezuela
Ecology
Chaetogaster limnaei and Nais communis were found to be associated with Aplexa rivalis in Brazil. In Venezuela it is found inhabiting ornamental ponds in the leaves of plants and vegetable crops, and are common in aquarium shops.
See also
List of non-marine molluscs of El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda, Venezuela
References
External links
ZipcodeZoo.com: Aplexa rivalis
Biodiversity Heritage Library: Aplexa rivalis
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Aplexa rivalis
- Aplexa
- Portuguesa (state)
- List of non-marine molluscs of Venezuela
- Stenophysa marmorata
- List of non-marine molluscs of El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda, Venezuela
- List of non-marine molluscs of Brazil
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- List of least concern molluscs
