''Austropeplea'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
freshwater snail
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s,
aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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s in the family
Lymnaeidae
Lymnaeidae, common name the pond snails, is a taxonomic family of small to large air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks, that belong to the clade Hygrophila.
Lymnaeidae is the only family within the superfam ...
, the pond snails.
[Bouchet, P. (2015). ''Austropeplea'' Cotton, 1942. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724554 on 2016-12-19]
Species
Species within the genus ''Austropeplea'' include:
* ''
Austropeplea hispida'' (Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997)
* ''
Austropeplea lessoni'' (Deshayes, 1830)
[Correa C. A., Escobar J. S., Durand P., Renaud F., David P., Jarne P., Pointier J.-P. & Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2010). "Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), vectors of Fascioliasis". '']BMC Evolutionary Biology
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'' 10: 381. .
* ''
Austropeplea ollula''
* ''
Austropeplea tomentosa'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) - the type species of the genus ''Austropeplea''
* ''
Austropeplea viridis'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - synonym: ''Lymnaea viridis''
[Schniebs K., Glöer P., Vinarski M. V., Quiñonero-Salgado S., Lopez-Soriano J. & Hundsdoerfer A. K. (2017)."A new alien species in Europe: First record of ''Austropeplea viridis'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Lymnaeidae) in Spain". '']Journal of Conchology
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'' 42(5): 357-370.
References
External links
* Vinarski V. M. (2013) "One, two, or several? How many lymnaeid genera are there?" ''Ruthenica'' 23(1): 41-58.
Lymnaeidae
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