''Peregriana peregra'' is a species of air-breathing

freshwater snail Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs ...

, an aquatic

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

Distribution and habitat

This small pond snail is found in Europe,

Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...

and northern Asia. This species is common in slow-moving or still water.Janus Horst. (1965). ''The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs''. Burke, London. Radix peregra underwater

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''Radix peregra''
at Animalbase Lymnaeidae Gastropods described in 1774 Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller {{Lymnaeidae-stub