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Limnaea Blainville, 1824

818725 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:818725)

 unaccepted (orthographic variant of Lymnaea)
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  1. Subgenus Limnaea (Palustrisiana) Servain, 1882 accepted as Stagnicola Jeffreys, 1830 (original combination)
    1. Subgenus Limnaea (Stagnaliana) Servain, 1882 accepted as Lymnaea Lamarck, 1799 (a junior synonym)
      1. Species Limnaea lutosa Petterd, 1889 accepted as Austropeplea huonensis (Tenison Woods, 1876) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
      2. Species Limnaea palmeri Dall, 1871 accepted as Recluzia lutea (Bennett, 1840)
      marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
      recent + fossil
      masculine
      Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1824). Mollusques, Mollusca (Malacoz.), pp. 1-392. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 32. Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25299230
      page(s): 242 [details] OpenAccess publication
      MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Limnaea Blainville, 1824. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818725 on 2026-07-20
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      Nomenclature

      original description Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1824). Mollusques, Mollusca (Malacoz.), pp. 1-392. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 32. Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25299230
      page(s): 242 [details] OpenAccess publication

      basis of record OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database. , available online at http://clade.ansp.org/obis/ [details] 

      Taxonomy

      status source Welter-Schultes, F.W. (2012). European non-marine molluscs, a guide for species identification. <em>Planet Poster Editions, Göttingen.</em> A1-A3, 1–679, Q1-Q78.
      page(s): 50 [details] 

      Other

      additional source Annandale, T. N. & Prashad, B. (1919). The Mollusca of the inland waters of Baluchistan and of Seistan, with a note on the liver-fluke of sheep in Seistan, by S. W. Kemp. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 18(1): 17-63, pls 3-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11134065
      page(s): 37-41 [details] 

      additional source Sterki, V. (1891). Some observations on how snails move their odontophores. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 5(8): 95., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42788891 [details] 

      additional source Becher, E. F. (1886). A Sind lake. <em>Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.</em> 1(3): 91-96., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2061369
      page(s): 96; note: An unidentified species [details] 

       
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