The freshwater molluscs of Serbia: Annotated checklist with remarks on distribution and protection status
Author
Marković, Vanja
Author
Gojšina, Vukašin
Author
Novaković, Boris
Author
Božanić, Milenka
Author
Stojanović, Katarina
Author
Karan-Žnidaršič, Tamara
Author
Živić, Ivana
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-07-16
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52.
Planorbarius corneus
(
Linnaeus, 1758
)
Findings in
Serbia
.
Planorbarius corneus
:
Hesse
(1929)
;
Jaeckel
et al.
(1958)
;
Frank
et al
. (1990)
;
Jovanović (1990
,
1995
a
,
1998
);
Arambašić (1994)
;
Reh
et al.
(1997)
;
Karaman
(2001, 2001
a
);
Karaman
& Živić (2001)
;
Živić
et al.
(2005
,
2006
);
Karaman
&
Karaman
(2007)
;
Savić
et al
. (2016)
;
Stojanović (2017)
;
Živić (2020)
; Gojšina (2021 pers. comm.).
Common name
. Great ramshorn.
Morphology
. Large snails up to
35 mm
diameter. Shell is flattened and thick, weakly striated. It consists of 4.5–5 fast increasing whorls. For more details see
Glöer (2019: 265
, fig. 331).
Distribution and ecology
. Holarctic species up to
750 m
.
a.s.l. (in
Serbia
up to
600 m
.
a.s.l.). Lives in standing and slow-flowing waters with a muddy substrate, and plenty of vegetation (
Welter-Schultes 2012
). Quite common in
Serbia
this species has been found in Kraljevac Lake, Obedska bara and Carska bara Wetlands, Danube, Tamiš, Sava, Nišava, Visočica, Toplica Rivers, and few other rivers from the southern part of
Serbia
.
Other remarks
. Due to self-fertilization it has a quite high spreading potential, sometimes only one snail can form stable populations in new habitats (
Welter-Schultes 2012
). On the IUCN Red List it has been assessed as LC (
Albrecht
et al
. 2010
).