Lymnaea

Lymnaea
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
The large snail is Lymnaea stagnalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Lymnaeidae
Subfamily: Lymnaeinae
Genus: Lymnaea
Lamarck, 1799[1]
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 family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.[2] Some species are used in aquaculture under the name Melantho snails.[3]

Lymnaea is the type genus of the family Lymnaeidae.[4]

Species

Species within the genus Lymnaea include:

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ Lamarck J. B. P. A. de Monet de. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères génériques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 1 [an VII]: 63-91, 1 tableau. Paris.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Lymnaea Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160345 on 2013-06-06
  3. ↑ "Aquaculture Law Digest" (PDF). Ohio Department of Natural Resources (undated). Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  5. 1 2 3 ?taxongenus=302 * in genus Lymnaea (n=3). AnimalBase, accessed 8 April 2011.
  6. ↑ Bargues M. D., Artigas P., Khoubbane M. & Mas-Coma S. (2011). "DNA sequence characterisation and phylogeography of Lymnaea cousini and related * , vectors of fascioliasis in northern Andean countries, with description of L. meridensis n. sp. (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae)". Parasites & Vectors 4: 132. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-4-132.
  7. 1 2 Vinarski M. V., Schniebs K., Glöer P., Son M. O. & Hundsdoerfer A. K. (2012). "The steppe relics: taxonomic study on two lymnaeid species endemic to the former USSR (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Lymnaeidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(1): 67-85. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/067-085.
  8. ↑ Correa, A. C.; Escobar, J. S.; Durand, P.; Renaud, F. O.; David, P.; Jarne, P.; Pointier, J. P.; Hurtrez-Boussès, S. (2010). "Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), vectors of Fascioliasis". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 381. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-381. PMC 3013105. PMID 21143890.
  9. 1 2 3 Bargues, M. D.; Artigas, P.; Mera y Sierra, R. L.; Pointier, J. P.; Mas-Coma, S. (2007). "Characterisation of Lymnaea cubensis, L. Viatrix and L. Neotropica n. Sp., the main vectors of Fasciola hepatica in Latin America, by analysis of their ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA". Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology 101 (7): 621–641. doi:10.1179/136485907X229077. PMID 17877881.
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