Austropeplea is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.[2]
| Austropeplea | |
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| Austropeplea lessoni shels | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae |
| Genus: | Austropeplea Cotton, 1942[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lymnaea aruntalis Cotton & Godfrey, 1938 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Kutikina Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997 | |
Species
editSpecies within the genus Austropeplea include:
- Austropeplea hispida (Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997)
- Austropeplea lessoni (Deshayes, 1830)[3]
- Austropeplea ollula[3]
- Austropeplea tomentosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) - the type species of the genus Austropeplea[3][4]
- Austropeplea viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - synonym: Lymnaea viridis[3][4]
References
edit- ^ Cotton (1942). Trans, roy. Soc. S. Aust. 66: 80.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Austropeplea Cotton, 1942. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724554 on 2016-12-19
- ^ a b c d Correa C. A., Escobar J. S., Durand P., Renaud F., David P., Jarne P., Pointier J.-P. & Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2010). "Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), vectors of Fascioliasis". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 381. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-381.
- ^ a b Schniebs K., Glöer P., Vinarski M. V., Quiñonero-Salgado S., Lopez-Soriano J. & Hundsdoerfer A. K. (2017)."A new alien species in Europe: First record of Austropeplea viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Lymnaeidae) in Spain". Journal of Conchology 42(5): 357-370.
External links
edit- Vinarski V. M. (2013) "One, two, or several? How many lymnaeid genera are there?" Ruthenica 23(1): 41-58.
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