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	 great ramshorn snail (Planorbarius corneus)
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| Subject: | great ramshorn snail (Planorbarius corneus) 
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Date: 2009:01:03 19:00:53
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| A live individual of Planorbarius corneus, carrying the shell with the umbilicus uppermost
 
 Description
 Deutsch: Posthornschnecke (Planorbarius corneus) weidet Algen auf dem Beton eines Seerosenteiches ab.
 English: Photo of an albino great ramshorn (Planorbarius corneus) eating algae from the concrete in a lily pond.
 Date 	May 2007
 Source 	Own work
 Author 	Claus Ableiter https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Claus_Ableiter
 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Posthornschnecke1.jpg
 
 Planorbarius corneus, common name the great ramshorn, is a relatively large species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells. The shell of this species appears to be dextral in coiling, even though it is in fact sinistral or left-handed. Superfamily:	Planorboidea, Family:	Planorbidae, Genus:	Planorbarius, Species:	Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758).
 Synonyms:
 Helix cornea Linnaeus, 1758
 Planorbis adelosius Bourguignat, 1859
 
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 |  |  | Guest |  |  | Scientific Name:	Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758) Common Names:	Great Ram's Horn Snail, Great Ramshorn Snail, Great Ramshorn
 Synonyms:
 Helix cornea Linnaeus, 1758
 Planorbis adelosius Bourguignat, 1859
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