Stagnicola palustris

Stagnicola palustris is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.^[5]

Subspecies

• † Stagnicola palustris antilibanensis (Blanckenhorn, 1897)
• Stagnicola palustris palustris (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Stagnicola palustris
Four shells of Stagnicola palustris
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Lymnaeidae
Genus:	Stagnicola
Species:	S. palustris
Binomial name
Stagnicola palustris (O. F. Müller, 1774)[2]
Synonyms[3][4]
Lymnaea palustris Lymnaea palustris f. turricula (Held, 1836) Stagnicola turricula (Held, 1836)

Stagnicola palustris (Müller, 1774), museum specimens Naturalis

Taxonomy

Stagnicola turricula is a synonym of Stagnicola palustris, because they are not genetically independent,^[6] but S. turricula is still sometimes listed separately.^[7][8]

Description

The dimensions of the shell of an adult of this species are from about 10 to 18 mm (0.39 to 0.71 in) in length, and about 6 to 10 mm (0.24 to 0.39 in) in width.^[9]

Distribution

Distribution

This species of snail occurs in European countries and islands including:

• Croatia
• Stagnicola palustris – Czech Republic^[6] – data deficient (DD)^[10]
• Germany – (Arten der Vorwarnliste)^[11]
• Great Britain
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Slovakia^[6]

Habitat

This snail lives in shallow, well-aerated freshwater habitats.

See also

Stagnicola palustris-like snails in the North America are named Ladislavella elodes, but that may be the same species.^[12]