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Glyptophysa

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Planorboidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Planorbidae

Rank
  
Genus

Subfamily
  
Bulininae sensu Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 or "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.

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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
  • Ecology

    Glyptophysa snails are grazers-scrapers.

    References

    Glyptophysa Wikipedia