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Physa is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, ... † Physa aridi Mezzalira, 1974 – fossil from Brazil [3]
The holotype specimen (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology #181292) was a fossil from Beaver Co., Oklahoma (Taylor 1954). [5] The species may be Holarctic in distribution based on shells found in Ukraine (Degtyarenko, E. and V. Anistratenko 2011).
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]
The name Physella means "little bladder", from Greek physa, [3] and the diminuative ending "-ella". This is in reference to the genus Physa, which P. acuta has, at times, been placed in. Acuta is a Latin word meaning sharp. [4]
Researchers in Scotland have unveiled the skeleton of a 164-million-year-old fossil known as the Storr Lochs Monster which is an ancient marine reptile.
Physa fontinalis, common name the common bladder snail, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Physidae. The shells of species in the genus Physa are left-handed or sinistral .
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Physa ventricosa G. B. Sowerby II, 1873 (invalid; not Moquin-Tandon, 1855) Stenophysa marmorata is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail , an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae .