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Kessneria

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Planorbidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Planorboidea

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Segmentorbis, Choanomphalus, Burnupia, Menetus

Kessneria is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Contents

All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to, and restricted to, northern Australia.

Species

Species within this genus include:

  • Kessneria papillosa Walker & Ponder, 2001
  • References

    Kessneria Wikipedia