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Lymnaea
Sign in to saveLymnaea is a genus of small to large-sized air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lymnaeinae of the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
Species
Great Pond Snail
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- FamilyLymnaeidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations12,139
Observations recorded88,585
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,225
- With media
- 196
- Family
- Lymnaeidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, SDNHM, PRI
- Recorded in
- Thailand, United States, Israel, China, Indonesia
Research
3,474 papers- Lymnaea.Current biology : CB · 2009
- What can we teach Lymnaea and what can Lymnaea teach us?Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021
- Snail defence responses to parasite infection: The Lymnaea stagnalis-Trichobilharzia szidati model.Developmental and comparative immunology · 2020
- Lymnaea stagnalis and the development of neuroelectronic technologies.Journal of neuroscience research · 2004
- Comparative study of visuo-vestibular conditioning in Lymnaea stagnalis.The Biological bulletin · 2006
via PubMed
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Encyclopedic overview
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Lymnaea is a genus of small to large-sized air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lymnaeinae of the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
Some species are used in aquaculture under the name Melantho snails.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lymnaea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.