Planorbis is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells.[2]
Planorbis shells are flat-coiled and sinistral.
This genus has a worldwide distribution. It is known from the Jurassic to the Recent periods.[3]
Species within the genus Planorbis include:
Planorbis is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells.