Galba Temporal range: | |
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Shells of Galba truncatula | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Superorder: | Hygrophila |
Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
Family: | Lymnaeidae |
Genus: | Galba Schrank, 1803 [1] |
Type species | |
Buccinum truncatulumO. F. Müller, 1774 | |
Synonyms [2] [3] [4] | |
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Galba is a genus of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails. [4]
The best-known species in the genus is Galba truncatula .
The genus Galba is known from the Jurassic to the Recent periods. [6]
Species within the genus Galba include: