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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Physidae |
| Genus: | Physa |
| Species: | †P. aridi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Physa aridi Mezzalira, 19741
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Physa aridi is a fossil species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an extinct aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Physidae. This species has a small, left-handed (or sinistral) shell, as is always the case in this family. Physa aridi dates from the Senonian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Bauru Group, in São Paulo state, Brazil.1
References
References
- Simone, L.R.L. & Mezzalira, S. 1994. Fossil Molluscs of Brazil. Boletim do Instituto Geológico 11: 1–202.