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Physella acuta is a species of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae. Common names include European physa , tadpole snail , bladder snail , and acute bladder snail .
Physa is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Physinae of the family Physidae. [ 2 ] These snails eat algae , diatoms and detritus.
Physella heterostropha halei of the Central and Southern USA, about 1 cm long. The sinistral shell of Physella acuta. Physidae, commonly called the bladder snails, is a family of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Lymnaeoidea. [3] [4]
Physella is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae. These snails eat algae , diatoms and other detritus .
Ellobiidae (hollow-shelled snails) – terrestrial or semi-marine. Carychium minimum O.F. Müller, 1774; Carychium tridentatum (Risso, 1826) Leucophytia bidentata (Montagu, 1808) Myosotella denticulata (Montagu, 1803) Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801) Physella acuta Otinidae – aquatic (almost fully marine, but a pulmonate) Otina ovata ...
Hygrophila is a taxonomic superorder of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the clade Panpulmonata. [2] [1] The families in this clade are basically air-breathing freshwater snails including freshwater limpets. The three families with the greatest number of species are the Lymnaeidae (pond snails), the ...
The Snake River physa snail, scientific name Physella natricina, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae. This species is endemic to Idaho in the United States. The Snake River physa snail Haitia natricina Taylor, 1988 is found in the middle Snake River of southern Idaho.
Basommatophora was a term that was previously used as a taxonomic informal group, a group of snails within the informal group Pulmonata, the air-breathing slugs and snails.. According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), whenever monophyly has not been tested, or where a traditional taxon of gastropods has now been discovered to be paraphyletic or polyphyletic, the term ...