Galba (gastropod)

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Galba
Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent
Galba truncatula.jpg
Shells of Galba truncatula
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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]
  • FossariaWesterlund, 1885 [5]
  • Fossaria (Bakerilymnaea)Weyrauch, 1964
  • Galba (Bakerilymnaea)Weyrauch, 1964
  • Galba (Galba)Schrank, 1803
  • Galba (Pseudogalba)F. C. Baker, 1913· accepted, alternate representation
  • Galba (Sibirigalba)Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985
  • Galba (Simpsonia)F.C. Baker, 1911 (Invalid: junior homonym of SimpsoniaRochebrune, 1905 [Bivalvia])
  • Limnaea (Fossaria)Westerlund, 1885 (a junior synonym)
  • Limnaea (Galba)Schrank, 1803 (genus misspelling; Galba is a separate genus)
  • Limnaea (Truncatuliana)Servain, 1882 (invalid: junior objective synonym of Galba)
  • Limneus (Entochilius)F. Sandberger, 1880 (junior synonym)
  • Lymnaea (Galba)Schrank, 1803 (elevated to genus level)
  • NasoniaF. C. Baker, 1928 (invalid: junior homonym of Nasonia Ashmead, 1904 [Hymenoptera]; Bakerilymnaea is a replacement name)
  • SphaerogalbaKruglov & Starobogatov, 1985 (a junior synonym)
  • TruncatulianaServain, 1881 (invalid: junior objective synonym of Galba)

Galba is a genus of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails. [4]

Contents

The best-known species in the genus is Galba truncatula .

The genus Galba is known from the Jurassic to the Recent periods. [6]

Species

Species within the genus Galba include:

Subgenus Galba (Galba) Schrank, 1803
Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. Schrank F. von Paula (1803). Favna Boica. Durchgedachte Geschichte der in Baiern einheimischen und zahmen Thiere. Dritten und lezten Bandes zweyte Abtheilung. pp. [1], 1-372, III-XIX [= 3-19]. Landshut. (Krüll).
  2. Bargues M. D., Artigas P., Khoubbane M., Flores R., Glöer P., et al. (2011). "Lymnaea schirazensis, an Overlooked Snail Distorting Fascioliasis Data: Genotype, Phenotype, Ecology, Worldwide Spread, Susceptibility, Applicability". PLoS ONE 6(9): e24567. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024567 .
  3. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) (1998). "Opinion 1896. Galba Schrank, 1803 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): Buccinum truncatulum Müller, 1774 designated as the type species". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55: 123.
  4. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2014). Galba Schrank, 1803. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716335 on 2014-11-17
  5. Westerlund (1885) Fauna Paläarct. Reg. Binnenconch., 5, 24, 49.
  6. (in Czech) Ivanov M., Hrdličková S. & Gregorová R. (2001). Encyklopedie zkamenělin. Rebo Productions, Dobřejovice, 1. vydání, 312 pp., page 126.
  7. Levri E. P., Krist A. C., Bilka R. & Dybdahl M. F. (2014). "Phenotypic Plasticity of the Introduced New Zealand Mud Snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, Compared to Sympatric Native Snails". PLoS ONE 9(4): e93985. doi : 10.1371/journal.pone.0093985 .
  8. "Galba galbana (Say, 1825)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  9. Bargues M. D., Artigas P., Mera y Sierra R. L., Pointier J. P. & Mas-Coma S. (2007). "Characterisation of Lymnaea cubensis, L. viatrix and L. neotropica n. sp., the main vectors of Fasciola hepatica in Latin America, by analysis of their ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA". Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 101: 621-641. doi : 10.1179/136485907X229077.
  10. Liu G.-H., Wang S.-Y., Huang W.-Y., Zhao G.-H., Wei S.-J., et al. (2012). "The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Galba pervia (Gastropoda: Mollusca), an Intermediate Host Snail of Fasciola spp." PLoS ONE 7(7): e42172. doi : 10.1371/journal.pone.0042172 .
  11. Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2012). "The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species". ZooKeys 219: 11-61, doi : 10.3897/zookeys.219.3406 .
  12. Müller O. F. (1774). Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).