Lymnaea

Lymnaea is a genus of small to large-sized air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lymnaeinae of the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

Species

Great Pond Snail

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassGastropoda
FamilyLymnaeidae

Habitatfreshwater

Observations12,139

Observations recorded88,585

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Research

3,474 papers

Lymnaea.Current biology : CB · 2009
What can we teach Lymnaea and what can Lymnaea teach us?Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021
Snail defence responses to parasite infection: The Lymnaea stagnalis-Trichobilharzia szidati model.Developmental and comparative immunology · 2020
Lymnaea stagnalis and the development of neuroelectronic technologies.Journal of neuroscience research · 2004
Comparative study of visuo-vestibular conditioning in Lymnaea stagnalis.The Biological bulletin · 2006

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taxon name: Lymnaea
taxon common name: Pond Snails
Commons category: Lymnaea

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Lymnaea is a genus of small to large-sized air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lymnaeinae of the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

Some species are used in aquaculture under the name Melantho snails.