| Lymnaea Temporal range: | |
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| The large snail is Lymnaea stagnalis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae |
| Genus: | Lymnaea Lamarck, 1799 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix stagnalis Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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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. [2]
Some species are used in aquaculture under the name Melantho snails. [3]
Numerous Lymnaea species serve as intermediate hosts for trematodes. [4] [5] [6]
Lymnaea is the type genus of the family Lymnaeidae. [7]
Species within the genus Lymnaea include: