Planorbarius

Planorbarius is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells.^[2]

Planorbarius
A live individual of Planorbarius corneus carrying the shell with the umbilicus uppermost as normal
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Planorbidae
Subfamily:	Planorbinae
Tribe:	Coretini
Genus:	Planorbarius Duméril, 1806[1]
Type species
Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species
See text
Synonyms[2]
Coretus Gray, 1847 (junior synonym) Planorbis (Coretus) Gray, 1847

Species

Species within this genus include:

• † Planorbarius barettii (Sacco, 1886)
• † Planorbarius borellii (Brusina, 1892)
• Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758)^[3]
• † Planorbarius cornu (Brongniart, 1810)
• † Planorbarius cornucopia (Baily, 1858)
• † Planorbarius crassus (Serres, 1844)
• † Planorbarius garsdorfensis Schlickum & Strauch, 1979
• † Planorbarius halavatsi Neubauer, Harzhauser, Kroh, Georgopoulou & Mandic, 2014
• † Planorbarius heriacensis (Fontannes, 1876)
• † Planorbarius incrassatus (Rambur, 1862)
• † Planorbarius isseli (Sacco, 1886)
• † Planorbarius mantelli (Dunker, 1848)
• † Planorbarius margoi (Lörenthey, 1894)
• Planorbarius metidjensis (Forbes, 1838)
• † Planorbarius philippei (Locard, 1883)
• † Planorbarius praecorneus (Fischer & Tournouër, 1873)
• † Planorbarius reticulatus Roshka, 1973
• † Planorbarius romani (Jodot, 1958)
• † Planorbarius royoi (Jodot, 1958)
• † Planorbarius sansaniensis (Noulet, 1854)
• † Planorbarius solidus (Thomä, 1845)
• † Planorbarius striatus Roshka, 1973
• † Planorbarius sulekianus (Brusina, 1874)
• † Planorbarius thiollieri (Michaud, 1855)
• † Planorbarius turkovici (Gorjanović-Kramberger, 1899)
• † Planorbarius vezici (Brusina, 1897)
• † Planorbarius villatoyensis (Jodot, 1958)

Species brought into synonymy

• † Planorbarius borelli (Brusina, 1892): synonym of † Planorbarius borellii (Brusina, 1892)
• † Planorbarius cornus (Brongniart, 1810): synonym of † Planorbarius cornu (Brongniart, 1810)
• † Planorbarius grandis (Halaváts, 1903): synonym of † Planorbarius halavatsi Neubauer, Harzhauser, Kroh, Georgopoulou & Mandic, 2014
• † Planorbarius thiollierei (Michaud, 1855): synonym of † Planorbarius thiollieri (Michaud, 1855)

Description

All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.

Planorbarius corneus. View of the sunken spire (held facing downwards in life)

Planorbarius corneus. View of umbilicus (held uppermost in life)