The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Gastropoda

(Snails & Limpets)

PLANORBIDAE

Biomphalaria havanensis (Pfeiffer)

Ghost Rams Horn

 

 Photogallery: 

 

 

Synonyms:  Gyraulus liebmanni (Dunker)
                                           (Cheatum & Burt 1931)
                   Planorbis havanensis
Pfeiffer
                   Planorbis liebmanni Dunker
                                            (Singley 1889; Strecker 1908; Ferriss 1924: Vanata 1926; Strecker 1933)
                   Tropicorbis havanensis (Pfeiffer)
                                            (Murray & Roy 1968; Wise 1962)
                   Tropicorbis liebmanni (Dunker)
                                             (Pilsbry 1934; Vanatta 1933)

 

 

 

Distribution Citations

1889 Singley

1908 Strecker

1924 Ferriss
1926 Vanata

1931 Cheatum & Burt
1933 Strecker
1933 Vanatta
[1934 Pilsbry]

1962 Wise
[1968 Murray & Roy]
[1969 Malek in Burch 1982]

 

1973 Bequaert & Miller

[1980 Burch & Tottenham]
[1989 Burch]

1996 Jasper

2002 Hogan
[2008 NatureServe]

 

 

 

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-also collected from the Nueces & Pecos Rivers (Ferriss 1924)

-from one or more sites in the Colorado, Guadalupe, Lavaca or San Antonio River Basins &/or  NE Nueces &/or intervening coastal areas (Wise 1962)

-also a common Pleistocene fossil in Texas (Bequaert & Miller 1973)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010


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