Lymnaeoidea,

common name In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrast ...

the pond snails, is a

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superfamily SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...

of small to large 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 ...

s, 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 ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

s, that belong to the

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Hygrophila.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Lymnaeoidea Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=489336 on 2020-06-27

Families

* Acroloxidae Thiele, 1931 *

Bulinidae Bulinidae is a family of gastropods in the superfamily LymnaeoideaMolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bulinidae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdet ...

P. Fischer & Crosse, 1880 * Burnupiidae Albrecht, 2017 * Clivunellidae Kochansky-Devidé & Slišković, 1972 † *

Lymnaeidae Lymnaeidae, common name the pond snails, is a taxonomic family of small to large air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks, that belong to the clade Hygrophila. Lymnaeidae is the only family within the superfamily ...

Rafinesque, 1815 *

Physidae Physidae, common name the bladder snails, is a monophyletic taxonomic family of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Lymnaeoidea .MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Physidae Fitzin ...

Fitzinger, 1833 *

Planorbidae Planorbidae, common name the ramshorn snails or ram's horn snails, is a family of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs. Unlike most molluscs, the blood of ram's horn snails contains iron-based hemoglobin instea ...

Rafinesque, 1815 ;Families brought into synonymy: * Ancylidae Rafinesque, 1815: synonym of Ancylinae Rafinesque, 1815 * Limnophysidae W. Dybowski, 1903: synonym of Lymnaeidae Rafinesque, 1815 (a junior synonym) * Rhodacmeidae B. Walker, 1917 : synonym of Ancylinae Rafinesque, 1815(a junior synonym)

References

* Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526

External links

Saadi, A. J.; Davison, A.; Wade, C. M. (2020). Molecular phylogeny of freshwater snails and limpets (Panpulmonata: Hygrophila). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
{{Taxonbar, from=Q20972844 Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque