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Austropeplea

Austropeplea is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

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Austropeplea
Austropeplea lessoni shels
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Lymnaeidae
Genus: Austropeplea
Cotton, 19421
Type species
Lymnaea aruntalis Cotton & Godfrey, 1938
Synonyms
  • Austropeplea (Austropeplea) Cotton, 1942
  • Austropeplea (Kutikina) Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997 junior subjective synonym
  • Glacilimnea Iredale, 1943
  • Kutikina Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997
  • Simlimnea Iredale, 1943 (junior synonym)

Austropeplea is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.2

Species

Species within the genus Austropeplea include:

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Distribution

Species in this genus occur off Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.

References

References

  1. Cotton (1942). Trans, roy. Soc. S. Aust. 66: 80.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Austropeplea Cotton, 1942. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724554 on 2016-12-19
  3. Correa C. A., Escobar J. S., Durand P., Renaud F., David P., Jarne P., Pointier J.-P. & Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2010). "Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), vectors of Fascioliasis". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 381. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-381.
  4. Schniebs K., Glöer P., Vinarski M. V., Quiñonero-Salgado S., Lopez-Soriano J. & Hundsdoerfer A. K. (2017)."A new alien species in Europe: First record of Austropeplea viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Lymnaeidae) in Spain". Journal of Conchology 42(5): 357-370.
  • Vinarski V. M. (2013) "One, two, or several? How many lymnaeid genera are there?" Ruthenica 23(1): 41-58.
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