Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Pulmonata > Order Hygrophila > Superfamily Planorboidea

Planorbidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Ancylus O.F. Muller, 1773
Bathyomphalus Charpentier, 1837
Planorbis O. F. Müller, 1773

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

English-United States: ramshorn snails sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: posthornssnäckor

Literature

basis of record	Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
additional source	Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Planorbidae Rafinesque, 1815. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153908