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Peringia
Sign in to savePeringia is a genus of very small snails with gills and an operculum, gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyHydrobiidae
Habitatbrackish, freshwater
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 505
- With media
- 15
- Family
- Hydrobiidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, MZLU
- Recorded in
- Spain, Tunisia, Sweden
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hydrobiidae
- Image
- Peringia ulvae 01.JPG
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- Peringia
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Species within the genus ''Peringia''
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Peringia is a genus of very small snails with gills and an operculum, gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.
This genus has become a synonym for Hydrobia Hartmann, 1821.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peringia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.