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Physella
Sign in to savePhysella is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.
Species
Acute Bladder Snail
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyPhysidae
Observations11,602
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,645
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Physidae
- Collections
- LACM, PRI, UF, SDNHM, AUM, NCSM
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada
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Encyclopedic overview
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Physella is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.
These snails eat algae, diatoms and other detritus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Physella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.