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Physella
Sign in to savePhysella is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.
Species
Acute Bladder Snail
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyPhysidae
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Physella is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.
These snails eat algae, diatoms and other detritus.
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Mollusca
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Physella gyrina
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Animalia
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Wikidata
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algae
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genus
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snail
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taxonomy
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Gastropoda
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Diatomea
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
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Q82486
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Integrated Taxonomic Information System
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Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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iNaturalist
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World Register of Marine Species
Organization
detritus
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Catalogue of Life
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Pulmonata
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Fauna Europaea
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