Gyraulus rossmaessleri

Gyraulus rossmaessleri is a small species of freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Gyraulus rossmaessleri
Gyraulus rossmaessleri (Auerswald, 1852)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Planorbidae
Genus:	Gyraulus
Species:	G. rossmaessleri
Binomial name
Gyraulus rossmaessleri (Auerswald, 1852)

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Holarctic. It occurs in countries and islands including:

• Germany - critically endangered (vom Aussterben bedroht)^[1]

Habitat

This small snail lives on water plants in freshwater.

Shell description

The shell is nearly planispiral in its coiling.