Physa fontinalis ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Marković, Vanja, Gojšina, Vukašin, Novaković, Boris, Božanić, Milenka, Stojanović, Katarina, Karan-Žnidaršič, Tamara & Živić, Ivana, 2021, The freshwater molluscs of Serbia: Annotated checklist with remarks on distribution and protection status, Zootaxa 5003 (1), pp. 1-64 : 26

47. Physa fontinalis ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Findings in Serbia.

Physa fontinalis: Tomić (1959) ; Arambašić (1994); Karaman (2001); Simić & Simić (2004); Karaman & Karaman (2007); Paunović et al. (2007 a, 2008); Marković et al. (2013, 2015); Martinović-Vitanović et al. (2013).

Common name. Common bladder snail.

Morphology. Medium-sized snail (shell up to 12 mm in height). Sinistral glossy thin-walled conical shell. Apex is blunt, mantle has finger-like extensions. For more details see Welter-Schultes (2012: 56, figure at the bottom of the page).

Distribution and ecology. Holarctic species up to 1000 m.a.s.l. (in Serbia mainly bellow 250 m. a.s.l.). Prefers clean standing or slow-flowing waters with vegetation ( Glöer 2019). In Serbia, it was recorded from Savsko jezero Lake, Zasavica, Obedska bara and Pančevački rit Wetlands, Danube, Sava and Velika Morava Rivers, as well as from a few smaller accumulations in the Belgrade region (Bela reka, Pariguz and Duboki potok).

Other remarks. Endangered in Switzerland and Austria. Vulnerable in Germany ( Welter-Schultes 2012). On the IUCN Red List of threatened species it has been assessed as LC (Van Damme 2011 a).

Genus Physella Haldeman, 1842