''Omphiscola'' is a

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of small to medium-sized, air-breathing, freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod

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 in the family Lymnaeidae.

Distribution

This is a

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an genus.

Species

Species within the genus include: * '' Omphiscola glabra'' (Müller, 1774) - type species"Species in genus ''Omphiscola''"

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, accessed 31 July 2010. * '' Omphiscola reticulata'' (Gassies, 1867)

References

Lymnaeidae Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque {{Lymnaeidae-stub