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Amphigyra

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Planorboidea

Scientific name
  
Amphigyra

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Family
  
Planorbidae

Higher classification
  
Planorbidae

Amphigyra

Similar
  
Planorbidae, Molluscs, Gastropods, Shoal sprite, Choanomphalus

Amphigyra is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Contents

Species

The genus Amphigyra contains the following species:

  • shoal sprite (Amphigyra alabamensis) - type species
  • Original description

    Genus Amphigyra was originally described by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1906.

    Pilsbry's original text (the original description) reads as follows:

    References

    Amphigyra Wikipedia