Amerianna carinata explained

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.

Distribution

The type locality is Boyne River, Queensland, Australia.

It was introduced to Martinique.^[1]

Human use

It is a part of ornamental pet trade for freshwater aquaria.^[2]

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. 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.