Omphiscola
Encyclopedia
Omphiscola is a genus
of small to medium-sized, air-breathing, freshwater snail
s, aquatic
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of small to medium-sized, air-breathing, freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s, aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae.
Species
Species within the genus include:- Omphiscola glabraOmphiscola glabraOmphiscola glabra is a species of small to medium-size, air-breathing, freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae.-Distribution:This European snail can be found from southern Scandinavia to southern Spain....
(Müller, 1774) - type species - Omphiscola reticulata (Gassies, 1867)