Ladislavella terebra explained

Ladislavella terebra (Westerlund, 1885) (formerly known as Catascopia occulta)^[1] is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

Taxonomy

Some authors classify this species as Stagnicola terebra, because the genus Catascopia Meier-Brook & Bargues, 2002 should not be distinguished based on DNA analysis only (genera should be distinguished morphologically and anatomically).^[2]

Distribution

This species of snail is found in the Czech Republic in two localities only: in a small temporary pool near Kladruby nad Labem in the Eastern Bohemia and in temporary pool near the inflow of the Dyje River into the Morava river in Moravia,^{[3] [4]} Germany, Poland and other areas.

Habitat

It inhabits freshwater bodies.

Notes and References

1. Vinarski MV . Taxonomic notes on Euro-Siberian freshwater mollusk . Mollusca . 26 . 2 . 175–185 . 2008 .
2. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=4233 Species summary for Stagnicola terebra"
3. Beran L. (2008). "A contribution to distribution of genus Stagnicola and Catascopia (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) in the Czech Republic". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 7: 70-73. PDF.
4. 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.