Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Hygrophila > Superfamily Lymnaeoidea > Family Lymnaeidae > Subfamily Amphipepleinae > Tribe Radicini > Genus Radix

Radix auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Helix Mitch.

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

RadixMontfort, 1810accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Albanian: kërmilli si vesh i baltave sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.
 Danish: øresnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Dutch: oorvormige poelslak sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 English: big-eared radix; ear pond snail 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.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 German: Ohrenschlammschnecke; Ohrförmige Schlammschnecke; Ohrschlammschnecke; Ohr-Schlammschnecke sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee;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.
 Polish: Błotniarka uszata
 Russian: Прудовик уховидный
 Swedish: örondammsnäcka

Literature

additional source

Johnson, R. I. (1945). Radix auricularia (Linn.) in Vermont. The Nautilus. 58(4): 144-145.

additional source

Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

additional source

Metcalf, A. L. & Smartt, R. (1972). Records of introduced mollusks: New Mexico and western Texas. The Nautilus. 85(4): 144-145.

additional source

Clapp, W. F. (1913). Radix auricularia at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Nautilus. 26(10): 116-117.

additional source

Glöer, P. & Pešić, V. (2012). The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species. ZooKeys. 219: 11-61. Sofia [4 September].

additional source

Neubert, E. (1998). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial and freshwater molluscs of the Arabian Peninsula with descriptions of new species. Fauna of Arabia. 17: 333-461.

additional source

Baker, F. C. (1911). The Lymnaeidae of North and Middle America, recent and fossil. The Chicago Academy of Sciences, special publication. 3: 1-539.

additional source

Glöer, P. & Bössneck, U. (2013). Freshwater molluscs from Nepal and North India with the description of seven new species (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae, Lymnaeidae, Planorbidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 142(1): 137-156.

status source

Aksenova, O. V.; Bolotov, I. N.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Kondakov, A. V.; Vinarski, M. V.; Bespalaya, Y. V.; Kolosova, Y. S.; Palatov, D. M.; Sokolova, S. E.; Spitsyn, V. M.; Tomilova, A. A.; Travina, O. V.; Vikhrev, I. V. (2018). Species Richness, Molecular Taxonomy and Biogeography of the Radicine Pond Snails (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) in the Old World. Scientific Reports. 8(1).

identification resource

Rowson, B., Powell, H., Willing, M., Dobson, M. & Shaw, H. (2021). Freshwater Snails of Britain and Ireland. FSC Publications, Telford, UK.

Genbank

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Radix auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=248263

Ruud A. Bank. Radix auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/0bcfbe54-197d-452c-bd81-efca19efd72f

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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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GUID

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Last modified

2014-11-07 by Ruud A. Bank & by Thomas A. Neubauer

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