Lymnaeidae

Lymnaeidae
Lymnaea stagnalis is the large snail behind the smaller one, Physa sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Infraclass: Euthyneura
Superorder: Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Lymnaeidae
Rafinesque, 1815
Genera

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Diversity[1][2][3]
about 100 freshwater species

or less than 100
or more than 250

Synonyms

Limnophysidae W. Dybowski, 1903 (a junior synonym)

Lymnaeidae, common name the pond snails, is a taxonomic family of small to large air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks, that belong to the clade Hygrophila.

Lymnaeidae is the only family within the superfamily Lymnaeoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[4]

  1. ^ Strong, E. E.; Gargominy, O.; Ponder, W. F.; Bouchet, P. (2007). "Global diversity of gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in freshwater". Hydrobiologia. 595: 149–166. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6. hdl:10088/7390. S2CID 44234861.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Correa 2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Kruglov, N. D. (2005). Моллюски семейства прудовиков (Lymnaeidae, Gastropoda, Pulmonata) Европы и Северной Азии. Особенности экологии и паразитологическое значение [Molluscs of family Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) of Europe and northern Asia: ecological peculiarities and parasitological importance] (in Russian). Smolensk: Smolensk State Pedagogical University, 503 p. ISBN 5-88018-388-2.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bouchet 2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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