Galba
Temporal range: |
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| Shells of Galba truncatula |
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| Scientific classification |
| Domain: |
Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Mollusca |
| Class: |
Gastropoda |
| Superorder: |
Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: |
Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: |
Lymnaeidae |
| Genus: |
Galba
Schrank, 1803 |
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| Type species |
Buccinum truncatulum O. F. Müller, 1774
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| Synonyms |
- Fossaria Westerlund, 1885
- Fossaria (Bakerilymnaea) Weyrauch, 1964
- Galba (Bakerilymnaea) Weyrauch, 1964
- Galba (Galba) Schrank, 1803
- Galba (Pseudogalba) F. C. Baker, 1913· accepted, alternate representation
- Galba (Sibirigalba) Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985
- Galba (Simpsonia) F.C. Baker, 1911 (Invalid: junior homonym of Simpsonia Rochebrune, 1905 [Bivalvia])
- Limnaea (Fossaria) Westerlund, 1885 (a junior synonym)
- Limnaea (Galba) Schrank, 1803 (genus misspelling; Galba is a separate genus)
- Limnaea (Truncatuliana) Servain, 1882 (invalid: junior objective synonym of Galba)
- † Limneus (Entochilius) F. Sandberger, 1880 (junior synonym)
- Lymnaea (Galba) Schrank, 1803 (elevated to genus level)
- Nasonia F. C. Baker, 1928 (invalid: junior homonym of Nasonia Ashmead, 1904 [Hymenoptera]; Bakerilymnaea is a replacement name)
- Sphaerogalba Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985 (a junior synonym)
- Truncatuliana Servain, 1881 (invalid: junior objective synonym of Galba)
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Galba is a genus of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
The best-known species in the genus is Galba truncatula.
The genus Galba is known from the Jurassic to the Recent periods.