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Lymnaea auricularia

Minibeast photographs and field observations.

Tropical rainforest vegetation at Singapore Botanic Gardens
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 4.0

Species notes

About Lymnaea auricularia

Lymnaea auricularia is treated by the GBIF Backbone as a synonym of Radix auricularia (also recorded as Ear Pond Snail), an accepted species in the family Lymnaeidae. Checklist records aggregated by GBIF list it from Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China), North America, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ireland, Slovakia, Belgium, and Great Britain. Land snails are molluscs that move on a muscular foot and usually carry a coiled shell that protects the soft body.

Common name
Ear Pond Snail
Family
Lymnaeidae
Identification rank
Species
Recorded distribution
Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China), North America, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ireland, Slovakia, Belgium, Great Britain

Taxonomy source: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy