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Seminole Ramshorn
Planorbella duryi
Planorbella duryi, common name the Seminole rams-horn, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails. The species is endemic to Florida and is found frequently in home aquariums.
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Description
In the wild they are brown. In captivity they have been bred to come in many colours. These colours are:
Brown Brown leopard Blue Blue leopard Red/orange Pink Green Purple
Range & habitat
This species of snail is endemic to the freshwater ecosystems of the US state of Florida. Fossils of the species have been found dating back to the Piacenzian, in the Tamiami formation. It has been introduced to Hawaii and lives in the wild there. It is an introduced species in various European islands and countries including:
Great Britain as a "hothouse alien" Hungary Ireland as a "hothouse alien" Parts of Southern Nigeria [e.g Ogun State, Lagos, Oyo] Palestine, first discovered in the pond at the Palestine Museum of Natural History Poland A live population was found in a brook with thermal water flowing from the Sliač spa, Slovakia, in 2023.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 129200.