Lymnaeoidea is a
taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing
freshwater snail
Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks that live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs t ...
s that belong to the
superorder
Order () is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized ...
Hygrophila.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Lymnaeoidea Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=489336 on 2020-06-27]
Families
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Acroloxidae
Acroloxidae, commonly known as river limpets, are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family of very small, freshwater snails, Aquatic animal, aquatic pulmonate gastropod limpet-like mollusks with a simple flattened conical gastropod shell, shell in ...
Thiele, 1931
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Bulinidae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1880
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Burnupiidae Albrecht, 2017
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Clivunellidae Kochansky-Devidé & Slišković, 1972 †
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Lymnaeidae
Lymnaeidae, common name the pond snails, is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small to large air-breathing freshwater snails, Aquatic animal, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks, that belong to the clade Hygrophila (cl ...
Rafinesque, 1815
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Physidae Fitzinger, 1833
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Planorbidae
Planorbidae, common name the ramshorn snails or ram's horn snails, is a family (biology), family of air-breathing freshwater snails, Aquatic animal, aquatic pulmonate gastropod Mollusca, molluscs. Unlike most molluscs, the blood of ram's horn sn ...
Rafinesque, 1815
;Families brought into synonymy:
* Ancylidae
Rafinesque, 1815: synonym of Ancylinae
Rafinesque, 1815
* Limnophysidae
W. Dybowski, 1903: synonym of Lymnaeidae
Rafinesque, 1815 (a junior synonym)
* Rhodacmeidae
B. Walker, 1917 : synonym of Ancylinae
Rafinesque, 1815(a junior synonym)
References
* Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526
External links
Saadi, A. J.; Davison, A.; Wade, C. M. (2020). Molecular phylogeny of freshwater snails and limpets (Panpulmonata: Hygrophila). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque