Ampullaceana ampla explained

Ampullaceana ampla is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.^[1]

Distribution

This species is found in European countries including:

• Germany
• Poland
• Czech Republic^[2]
• Slovakia^[2]
• and others in Central and Eastern Europe.Then across the Palearctic to Siberia' The species lives in calm parts of rivers and lakes. They mostly stay on the shoreline near the water surface. A. ampla is relatively rare.

References

• Vinarski, M.V.; Glöer, P. (2007). Taxonomical notes on Euro-Siberian freshwater molluscs. 1. Turbo patulus Da Costa, 1778 is not a senior synonym of Limneus ampla Hartmann, 1821 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) Ruthenica. 17(1-2): 55-63

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Ampullaceana ampla (W. Hartmann, 1821). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1288030 on 2019-03-23
2. Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.