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.
Species
pond snails
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- FamilyLymnaeidae
Habitatbrackish, freshwater
Observations recorded386,544
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,643
- With media
- 9
- Family
- Lymnaeidae
- Collections
- UCM, YPM, UCMP, UF, MCZ, CAS
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, Philippines
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- 2005 taxonomy
- 2013 taxonomy
- Cladogram
- Genera
- Distribution
- Description
- Ecology
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lymnaeidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.