Juvenile shells (picture not licenced under creative commons)

Juvenile shells (picture not licenced under creative commons)

Juvenile shells (picture not licenced under creative commons)

First hand info on Felipponea iheringi: Contribution by Fábio André Faraco (Portuguese version).

Shell: Neritoid (the species name indicates this already) with distincive difference between male and female snails (see picture above).
The shell of this snail is quite heavy and thick.
Colour: olive green with faint brown bands.
Operculum: corneous
Body: Dark.

Eggs: Aquatic eggs in gelatineous clutches.

Aquatic eggs in a gelatineous mass. (picture not licenced under creative commons)	Juvenile Felipponea iheringi snail. (picture not licenced under creative commons)	Felipponea iheringi snail eating lettuce. (picture not licenced under creative commons)
	(picture not licenced under creative commons)

Habitat: Lives in streaming, oxigen rich water (hence to absense of a breathing siphon).
Distribution: Rio Uruguai, departamento de Paysandú, Uruguai.

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