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Lymnaea
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
The large snail is Lymnaea stagnalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Lymnaeidae
Genus: Lymnaea
Lamarck, 1799[1]
Type species
Helix stagnalis
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[2]
  • Limneus Sandberger, 1875 (invalid: unjustified emendation of Lymnaea)
  • Lymnaea (Kazakhlymnaea) Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1984
  • Lymnaea (Lymnaea) Lamarck, 1799
  • Lymnaeus (incorrect subsequent spelling)

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.[2]

Some species are used in aquaculture under the name Melantho snails.[3]

Numerous Lymnaea species serve as intermediate hosts for trematodes.[4][5][6]

Lymnaea is the type genus of the family Lymnaeidae.[7]

Species

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Species within the genus Lymnaea include:

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