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
via GBIF
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.
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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.