''Pseudosuccinea'' is a

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of 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, the pond snails. In this genus, the shells are very similar to those of the

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

genus ''

Succinea ''Succinea'', common name the amber snails, is a large genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Succineidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Succinea Draparnaud, 1801. Accessed thr ...

'', which belongs to a different family.

Species

Species within the genus ''Pseudosuccinea'' include: * ''

Pseudosuccinea columella ''Pseudosuccinea columella'', the American ribbed fluke snail, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an Aquatic animal, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails. This snail is an intermediate host f ...

'' (Say, 1817)"Species summary for ''Pseudosuccinea columella''"

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, last modified 25 March 2011, accessed 28 March 2011. * † '' Pseudosuccinea dineana'' (D. W. Taylor, 1957) MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Pseudosuccinea dineana (D.W. Taylor, 1957) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1261071 on 2019-06-08

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7255605 Lymnaeidae Gastropod genera