Glyptophysa

Updated on Dec 12, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Planorboidea Phylum Mollusca		Class Gastropoda Family Planorbidae Rank Genus
Subfamily Bulininaesensu Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005or"B-clade" sensu Albrecht et al. (2007) Similar Choanomphalus, Segmentorbis, Austropeplea, Menetus

Glyptophysa is a genus of small sinistral (left-handed) air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae.

Species

Species in this genus include:

Glyptophysa aliciae Reeve, 1862 - may belong in Glyptophysa petiti

Glyptophysa georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - King George’s Freshwater Snail

Glyptophysa gibbosa (Gould, 1846)

Glyptophysa multistrigata (Cooke, 1889) - tentatively placed here

Glyptophysa oconnori Cumber, 1941

Glyptophysa petiti (Crosse 1872) - type species

Glyptophysa proteus (Sowerby, 1873) - tentatively placed here

Glyptophysa snails are grazers-scrapers.

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