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Ancylus
Ancylus is a genus of very small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets. They are aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the tribe Ancylini within the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies....
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
River Limpet
speciesAncylus fluviatilis
Ancylus striatus
speciesAncylus striatus
Ancylus aduncus
speciesAncylus aduncus
Ancylus naumiensis
speciesAncylus naumiensis
Ancylus recurvus
speciesAncylus recurvus
Ancylus ashangiensis
speciesAncylus ashangiensis
Ancylus lapicidus
speciesAncylus lapicidus
Ancylus regularis
speciesAncylus regularis
Ancylus scalariformis
speciesAncylus scalariformis
Ancylus tapirulus
speciesAncylus tapirulus
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 86460.