Lymnaeidae
| Lymnaeidae | |
|---|---|
| Lymnaea stagnalis is the large snail behind the smaller one, Physa sp. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
| Genera | |
|
See text | |
| Diversity | |
| about 100 freshwater species
or less than 100 | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Limnophysidae W. Dybowski, 1903 (a junior synonym) | |
Lymnaeidae, common name the pond snails, is a taxonomic family of small to large air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks, that belong to the clade Hygrophila.
Lymnaeidae is the only family within the superfamily Lymnaeoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).