Re: Ramshorn snail

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• Subject: Re: Ramshorn snail
• From: nfrank at nando_net (Neil Frank)
• Date: Sun, 1 Oct 95 18:47:36 EDT

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>From: Plants FIDO-Gate <Plants.FIDO-Gate at f78_n480.z2.fidonet.org>
>Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 21:40:03 +0100
>Subject: Re: Why isn't my ramshorn eating algae?
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>Could you please (or could someone else) give me the latin
>name for Ramshorn snail?
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>     | /| |/   Tomasz Nidecki

Red ramshorn snail is Planorbis corneus

Columbian Ramshorn or Columbian Striped Ramshorn (reaching diamenter of 1
1/2 inches) is Marisa rotula (ref: Exotic Aquarium Fishes by Wm. T. Innes)

NF

Neil Frank   Editor of "The Aquatic Gardener"  Aquatic Gardeners Association
 Visit the AGA home page at <http://blake.oit.unc.edu/~fish/aga/>
    

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