Lymnaeidae
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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.
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Lymnaeidae | |
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Lymnaea stagnalis is the large snail behind the smaller one, Physa sp. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
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 | |
Synonyms | |
Limnophysidae W. Dybowski, 1903 (a junior synonym) |
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Lymnaeidae is the only family within the superfamily Lymnaeoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[4]