''Omphiscola'' is a

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of small to medium-sized, air-breathing,

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the family Lymnaeidae.

Distribution

This is a

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an genus.

Species

Species within the genus include:MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Omphiscola Rafinesque, 1819. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724437 on 2023-10-26 * ''

Omphiscola glabra ''Omphiscola glabra'', commonly known as the pond mud snail, is a species of small to medium-size, air-breathing, freshwater snail, an Aquatic animal, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae.Glöer P. (2002). Überfamilie Lym ...

'' (Müller, 1774) - type species"Species in genus ''Omphiscola''"

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* '' Omphiscola pugio'' Beck, 1838 ;

Species inquirenda In biological classification, a ''species inquirenda'' is a species of doubtful identity requiring further investigation. The use of the term in English-language biological literature dates back to at least the early nineteenth century. The ter ...

* '' Omphiscola reticulata'' (Gassies, 1867)

References

Lymnaeidae Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque {{Lymnaeidae-stub