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Galba (gastropod)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Lymnaeidae

Scientific name
  
Galba

Higher classification
  
Lymnaeidae

Superfamily
  
Lymnaeoidea

Subfamily
  
Lymnaeinae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Genus

Galba (gastropod)

Similar
  
Galba truncatula, Lymnaeidae, Molluscs, Gastropods, Stagnicola

Galba is a genus of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

The best-known species in the genus is Galba truncatula.

The genus Galba is known from the Jurassic to the Recent periods.

Species

Species within the genus Galba include:

  • Galba bulimoides or Fossaria (Bakerilymnaea) bulimoides (I. Lea, 1841)
  • Galba cousini (Jousseaume, 1887) [1]
  • Galba cubensis (Pfeiffer, 1839) [2]
  • † Galba dupuyiana (Noulet, 1854)
  • †Galba gaudryi Wenz, 1922
  • † Galba halavatsi Wenz, 1922
  • † Galba minor (Thomä, 1845)
  • Galba modicella (Say, 1825)
  • Galba neotropica (Bargues, Artigas, Mera y Sierra, Pointier & Mas-Coma, 2007)
  • Galba obrussa (Say, 1825) [3]
  • Galba parva (I. Lea, 1841)
  • Galba pervia (Martens, 1867)
  • Galba schirazensis Küster, 1862
  • Galba sibirica (Westerlund, 1885)
  • † Galba subminuta (Almera & Bofill y Poch, 1895)
  • † Galba suboblonga (Kovalenko, 1994)
  • † Galba subpalustris - a fossil species from the late Miocene
  • Galba viatrix (d'Orbigny, 1835) [4]
    • Subgenus Galba (Galba) Schrank, 1803
  • † Galba (Galba) bulimoides (Klein, 1846)
  • † Galba (Galba) cornea (Brongniart, 1810)
  • † Galba (Galba) kenesensis (Halaváts, 1903)
  • † Galba (Galba) phrygopalustris (Oppenheim, 1919)
  • † Galba (Galba) praepalustris (Roman, 1907)
  • † Galba (Galba) sandbergeri (Łomnicki, 1886)
  • † Galba (Galba) subtruncatula (Clessin, 1885)
  • † Galba (Galba) suevica (Wenz, 1916)
  • Galba (Galba) truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774) - the type species
    • Species brought into synonymy
  • † Galba dupuyana (Noulet, 1854): synonym of † Galba dupuyiana (Noulet, 1854)
  • † Galba jaccardi (Maillard, 1892): synonym of †Stagnicola jaccardi (Maillard, 1892)
  • Galba montanensis F. C. Baker, 1913: synonym of Walterigalba montanensis (F. C. Baker, 1913)
  • Galba occulta Jackiewicz, 1959: synonym of Ladislavella terebra (Westerlund, 1885)
  • Galba pusilla Schrank, 1803: synonym of Galba truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • † Galba (Galba) armaniacensis (Noulet, 1857): synonym of † Stagnicola armaniacensis (Noulet, 1857)
  • † Galba (Galba) bouilleti (Michaud, 1855): synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti (Michaud, 1855)
  • † Galba (Galba) glabra (Müller, 1774): synonym of † Omphiscola glabra (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • † Galba (Galba) heriacensis (Fontannes, 1876): synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti (Michaud, 1855)
  • † Galba (Galba) jaccardi (Maillard, 1892): synonym of † Stagnicola jaccardi (Maillard, 1892)
  • † Galba (Galba) kreutzii (Łomnicki, 1886): synonym of † Stagnicola kreutzii (Łomnicki, 1886)
  • Galba (Galba) palustris (Müller, 1774): synonym of Stagnicola palustris (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • † Galba (Galba) rouvillei (Fontannes, 1879): synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti (Michaud, 1855)
  • † Galba (Galba) subfragilis (d'Orbigny, 1852): synonym of † Lymnaea subfragilis d'Orbigny, 1852
  • † Galba (Galba) subpalustris (Thomä, 1845): synonym of † Stagnicola subpalustris (Thomä, 1845)

    • References

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