Galba cousini

Galba cousini is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.^[4]

Galba cousini
Apertural view of a shell of Galba cousini (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Lymnaeidae
Genus:	Galba
Species:	G. cousini
Binomial name
Galba cousini (Jousseaume, 1887)
Synonyms[1][2]
Limnaea selli Preston, 1907 (a junior synonym) Lymnaea bogotensis Pilsbry, 1935[3] Lymnaea cousini Jousseaume, 1887

Description

The length of the shell attains 13.8 mm. Galba cousini are intermediate hosts of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica, the causal agent of fasciolosis, a zoonotic parasitic disease.^[5]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Ecuador.