Planorbella magnifica (Pilsbry, 1903)
Magnificent ramshorn
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Helisoma magnifica (Pilsbry, 1903)
Conservation Status
Missing
IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable
Distribution
North Carolina, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Adams, W. F. and Gerberich, A. G. (1988). Rediscovery of Planorbella magnifica Pilsbry in southeastern North Carolina USA. Nautilus 102: 125-126.
Adams, W. F. and Brady, S. G. (1995). Rediscovery of the aquatic gastropod Helisoma eucosmium (Bartsch, 1908), (Basommatophora: Planorbidae). Brimleyana 22: 23-29.
Baker, F.C. 1945. The Molluscan Family Planorbidae. The University of Illinois Press. Urbana, Illinois.
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Bartsch, P. 1908. Notes on the fresh-water mollusk (Planorbis magnificus) and descriptions of two new forms of the same genus from the southern states. Proc. US Nat. Mus. 33: 697-700.
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Bogan, A. E., M. R. Raley and J. F. Levine (2003) Final report on the taxonomic status of the Greenfield ramshorn, Helisoma eucosmium (Bartsch, 1908) and the magnificent ramshorn, Planorbella magnifica (Pilsbry 1903) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Planorbidae) from eastern North Carolina. Unpublished report filed with the US Fish & Wildlife Service, Asheville. 22 pp.
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Scientific Council on Freshwater and Terrestrial Mollusks. 1990. (W. F. Adams, Chair) A report on the conservation status of North Carolina’s freshwater and terrestrial molluscan fauna.
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