Physidae
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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]
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Physidae | |
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A live individual of Physella acuta from the Mediterranean area | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Infraclass: | Euthyneura |
Superorder: | Hygrophila |
Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
Family: | Physidae Fitzinger, 1833[1] |
Type genus | |
Physa Draparnaud, 1801 | |
Diversity[2] | |
About 80 freshwater species |
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