Ampullaceana ampla

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

Distribution

This species is found in European countries including:

• Germany
• Poland
• Czech Republic
• Slovakia
• 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

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