Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Hygrophila > Superfamily Lymnaeoidea

Planorbidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Ancylinae Rafinesque, 1815
Biomphalaria Preston, 1910
Bulininae
Hebetancylus Pilsbry, 1914
Planorbinae Rafinesque, 1815

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: schijfhorens sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.
 English: ramshorn snails sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 German: Tellerschnecken sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.
 Swedish: posthornssnäckor

Literature

basis of record

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.

additional source

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].

additional source

Hubendick, B. (1955). Phylogeny in the Planorbidae. The Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 28(6): 453-542.

additional source

Baker, F. C. (1945). The molluscan family Planorbidae. Collation, revision, and additions by Harley Jones Van Cleave. xxxvi + 530 pp., 1 portrait. [4 April]. Urbana (University of Illinois Press).

additional source

Albrecht, C., Kuhn, K. & Streit, B. (2007). A molecular phylogeny of Planorboidea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata): insights from enhanced taxon sampling. Zoologica Scripta, 36: 27-39. Stockholm / Oslo

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Planorbidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153908

Ruud A. Bank. Planorbidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/c6b86f49-e0ca-43de-8be6-11ed3a26c88b

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


not marine, not brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2017-11-02 by Ruud A. Bank & by Philippe Bouchet

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