Omphiscola

Omphiscola is a genus of small to medium-sized, air-breathing, freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae.

Omphiscola
Omphiscola glabra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:
Lymnaeoidea
Family:
Lymnaeidae
Subfamily:
Lymnaeinae
Genus:
Omphiscola

Distribution

This is a European genus.

Species

Species within the genus include:

References
  1. Rafinesque C. S. (1819). "Prodrome de 70 nouveaux genres d'animaux découverts dans l'intérieur des États-Unis d'Amérique, durant l'année 1818". Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire Naturelle 88: 417-429. Paris.
  2. "Species in genus Omphiscola". AnimalBase, accessed 31 July 2010.


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