Amerianna carinata

Amerianna carinata is a species of freshwater air-breathing snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. Like all other planorbids it has a sinistral or left-coiling shell.

Amerianna carinata
Amerianna carinata shell. Scale bar is 1 mm.
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:
Planorboidea
Family:
Planorbidae
Subfamily:
Miratestinae
Genus:
Amerianna
Species:
A. carinata
Binomial name
Amerianna carinata
(H. Adams, 1861)[2]
Synonyms[3]

Physa (Ameria) carinata H. Adams, 1861

Distribution

The type locality is Boyne River, Queensland, Australia.[2][3]

It was introduced to Martinique.[4]

Human use

It is a part of ornamental pet trade for freshwater aquaria.[5]

References
  1. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2018-1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 15 September 2018.
  2. Adams H. (1861). "Descriptions of a new genus and some new species of shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq." Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for the year 1861: 143-145.
  3. MolluscaBase (2018). Amerianna carinata (H. Adams, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1063162 on 2018-09-15
  4. Pointier J.-P. (2001). "Invading Freshwater Snails and Biological Control in Martinique Island, French West Indies". Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 96(1): 67-74. HTM.
  5. Ng, T. H., Tan, S. K., Wong, W. H., Meier, R., Chan, S. Y., Tan, H. H., & Yeo, D. C. (2016). "Molluscs for sale: assessment of freshwater gastropods and bivalves in the ornamental pet trade". PLoS ONE 11(8): e0161130. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161130


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