BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary
Gyraulus circumstriatus
Disc Gyro
| Scientific Name: | Gyraulus circumstriatus (Tryon, 1866) | ||||||||||
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| English Name: | Disc Gyro | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name - Concept Reference: | Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, P. M. Mikkelsen, R. J. Neves, C. F. E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F. G. Thompson, M. Vecchione, and J. D. Williams. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks. 2nd Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26, Bethesda, Maryland. 526 pp. | ||||||||||
| Classification Level: | Species | ||||||||||
| Species Group: | Invertebrate Animal | ||||||||||
| Species Code: | MO-GYRCIR | ||||||||||
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| Global Status: | G5 (Aug 2017) | ||||||||||
| Provincial Status: | S5 (Oct 2024) | ||||||||||
| BC List: | Yellow | ||||||||||
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| Global Habitat Comments: | This "weedy" habitat generalist species occurs in lentic and intermittent systems, including streams, ponds, lakes, reservoirs, and marshes with areas of rooted aquatic vegetation (Miller, 1970; Sharpe and Forrester, 2008; Harrold and Guralnick, 2009). | ||||||||||
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| Provincial Phenology: (1st half of month/ 2nd half of month) |
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| Colonial Breeder: | N | ||||||||||
| Length(cm)/width(cm)/Weight(g): | / / | ||||||||||
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| Endemic: | N | ||||||||||
| Global Range Comment: | This species is widespread across North America from British Columbia across Canada to Prince Edward Island (Clarke, 1981) and in the U.S. from Colorado and New Mexico east to New England and south to Florida (Burch, 1989). | ||||||||||
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| Global Information Author: | Cordeiro, J. | ||||||||||
| Last Updated: | Dec 10, 2011 | ||||||||||
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| References and Related Literature | |||||||||||
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Please visit the website Conservation Status Ranks for definitions of the data fields used in this summary report.
Suggested Citation:
B.C. Conservation Data Centre. 2011. Species Summary: Gyraulus circumstriatus. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 13, 2026).