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Viviparidae. Viviparidae, sometimes known as the river snails or mystery snails, are a family of large aquatic gastropod mollusks, being some of the most widely distributed operculate freshwater snails. This family is classified in the informal group Architaenioglossa according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.
The Chinese mystery snail, black snail, or trapdoor snail (Cipangopaludina chinensis), is a large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae. [3] [4] The Japanese variety of this species is black and usually a dark green, moss-like alga covers the shell. [citation needed]
Littorinidae. Two freshwater species and numerous marine species. The Littorinidae are a taxonomic family of over 200 species of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha, commonly known as periwinkles and found worldwide. [3]
Genus: Hydatina. Species: H. physis. Binomial name. Hydatina physis. (Linnaeus, 1758) Hydatina physis is a species of sea snail, a bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aplustridae. Its common names include striped paper bubble, green-lined paper bubble, brown-lined paper bubble, and rose petal bubble shell.
Turbo sulcatus Woodward, 1833. Turbo ustulatus Lamarck, 1822. Turbo ventricosus Woodward, 1833. The common periwinkle or winkle (Littorina littorea) is a species of small edible whelk or sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc that has gills and an operculum, and is classified within the family Littorinidae, the periwinkles.
Live Partula faba found in the wild in 1992. Partula faba, commonly known as the bean snail, [2] Partula snail, [2] or Captain Cook's bean snail, [3][a] is an extinct [4] species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae. This species was endemic to Ra'iātea and Tahaa, neighbouring ...
Haminea [sic] (misspelling of HaminaeaLeach in Gray, 1847) Haminoea is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or bubble snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the family Haminoeidae, the haminoea bubble snails, part of the clade Cephalaspidea, the headshield slugs and bubble snails. [ 2 ]
Littorinimorpha. Superfamily: Tonnoidea. Family: Bursidae. Thiele, 1925. Genera. See text. The Bursidae, common name "frog snails" or "frog shells", are a small taxonomic family of large sea snails, marine gastropod predatory snails in the clade Littorinimorpha.