Galba (gastropod) explained

Galba is a genus of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.^[1]

The best-known species in the genus is Galba truncatula.

The genus Galba is known from the Jurassic to the Recent periods.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Galba include:

• Galba bulimoides or Fossaria (Bakerilymnaea) bulimoides (I. Lea, 1841)^[3]
• Galba cousini (Jousseaume, 1887) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=696403&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock
• Galba cubensis (Pfeiffer, 1839) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=56624&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock
• Galba cyclostoma (Walker, 1908) (synonym: Fossaria cyclostoma (Walker, 1808))
• Galba dalli (F.C. Baker, 1907)
• † Galba dupuyiana (Noulet, 1854)
• Galba exigua (I. Lea, 1841)
• Galba galbana Say, 1825) (synonym: Fossaria galbana Say, 1825)^[4]
• †Galba gaudryi Wenz, 1922
• † Galba halavatsi Wenz, 1922
• Galba meridensis (Bargues, Artigas, Khoubbane & Mas-Coma, 2011)
• † Galba minor (Thomä, 1845)
• Galba modicella (Say, 1825)
• Galba neotropica (Bargues, Artigas, Mera y Sierra, Pointier & Mas-Coma, 2007)^[5]
• Galba obrussa (Say, 1825) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=1034356&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock
• Galba parva (I. Lea, 1841) (synonym: Fossaria parva (I.Lea, 1841))
• Galba pervia (Martens, 1867)^[6]
• Galba schirazensis Küster, 1862^[7]
• Galba sibirica (Westerlund, 1885)
• † Galba subminuta (Almera & Bofill y Poch, 1895)
• † Galba suboblonga (Kovalenko, 1994)
• † Galba subpalustris - a fossil species from the late Miocene
• Galba viatrix (d'Orbigny, 1835) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=133531&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock

Subgenus Galba (Galba) Schrank, 1803

• † Galba (Galba) bulimoides (Klein, 1846) nomen dubium
• † Galba (Galba) cornea (Brongniart, 1810)
• † Galba (Galba) kenesensis (Halaváts, 1903)
• † Galba (Galba) phrygopalustris (Oppenheim, 1919)
• † Galba (Galba) praepalustris (Roman, 1907)
• † Galba (Galba) sandbergeri (Łomnicki, 1886)
• † Galba (Galba) subtruncatula (Clessin, 1885)
• † Galba (Galba) suevica (Wenz, 1916)
• Galba (Galba) truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774)^[8] - the type species

Species brought into synonymy:

• † Galba dupuyana (Noulet, 1854): synonym of † Galba dupuyiana (Noulet, 1854)
• † Galba jaccardi (Maillard, 1892): synonym of † Stagnicola jaccardi (Maillard, 1892)
• Galba montanensis F. C. Baker, 1913: synonym of Walterigalba montanensis (F. C. Baker, 1913)
• Galba occulta Jackiewicz, 1959: synonym of Ladislavella terebra (Westerlund, 1885)
• Galba pusilla Schrank, 1803: synonym of Galba truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• † Galba (Galba) armaniacensis (Noulet, 1857): synonym of † Stagnicola armaniacensis (Noulet, 1857)
• † Galba (Galba) bouilleti (Michaud, 1855): synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti (Michaud, 1855)
• † Galba (Galba) glabra (Müller, 1774): synonym of † Omphiscola glabra (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• † Galba (Galba) heriacensis (Fontannes, 1876): synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti (Michaud, 1855)
• † Galba (Galba) jaccardi (Maillard, 1892): synonym of † Stagnicola jaccardi (Maillard, 1892)
• † Galba (Galba) kreutzii (Łomnicki, 1886): synonym of † Stagnicola kreutzii (Łomnicki, 1886)
• Galba (Galba) palustris (Müller, 1774): synonym of Stagnicola palustris (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• † Galba (Galba) rouvillei (Fontannes, 1879): synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti (Michaud, 1855)
• † Galba (Galba) subfragilis (d'Orbigny, 1852): synonym of † Lymnaea subfragilis d'Orbigny, 1852
• † Galba (Galba) subpalustris (Thomä, 1845): synonym of † Stagnicola subpalustris (Thomä, 1845)

References

• Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985) Vinarski V.M. (2013) One, two, or several? How many lymnaeid genera are there? Ruthenica 23(1): 41-58

External links

• Guo-Hua Liu, Shu-Yan Wang, Wei-Yi Huang, Guang-Hui Zhao, Shu-Jun Wei, Hui-Qun Song, Min-Jun Xu, Rui-Qing Lin, Dong-Hui Zhou, Xing-Quan Zhu : The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Galba pervia (Gastropoda: Mollusca), an Intermediate Host Snail of Fasciola spp; PLOS|One, July 26, 2012

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2014). Galba Schrank, 1803. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716335 on 2014-11-17
2. Ivanov M., Hrdličková S. & Gregorová R. (2001). Encyklopedie zkamenělin. Rebo Productions, Dobřejovice, 1. vydání, 312 pp., page 126.
3. Levri E. P., Krist A. C., Bilka R. & Dybdahl M. F. (2014). "Phenotypic Plasticity of the Introduced New Zealand Mud Snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, Compared to Sympatric Native Snails". PLoS ONE 9(4): e93985. .
4. Web site: Galba galbana (Say, 1825) . www.gbif.org . 24 October 2021 . en.
5. Bargues M. D., Artigas P., Mera y Sierra R. L., Pointier J. P. & Mas-Coma S. (2007). "Characterisation of Lymnaea cubensis, L. viatrix and L. neotropica n. sp., the main vectors of Fasciola hepatica in Latin America, by analysis of their ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA". Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 101: 621-641. .
6. Liu G.-H., Wang S.-Y., Huang W.-Y., Zhao G.-H., Wei S.-J., et al. (2012). "The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Galba pervia (Gastropoda: Mollusca), an Intermediate Host Snail of Fasciola spp." PLoS ONE 7(7): e42172. .
7. Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2012). "The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species". ZooKeys 219: 11-61, .
8. Müller O. F. (1774). Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).