Austropeplea Explained

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

Species

Species within the genus Austropeplea include:

• Austropeplea hispida (Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997)
• Austropeplea lessoni (Deshayes, 1830)^[2]
• Austropeplea ollula^[2]
• Austropeplea tomentosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) - the type species of the genus Austropeplea^[2]
• Austropeplea viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - synonym: Lymnaea viridis^{[2] [3]}

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Austropeplea Cotton, 1942. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724554 on 2016-12-19
2. Correa C. A., Escobar J. S., Durand P., Renaud F., David P., Jarne P., Pointier J.-P. & Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2010). "Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), vectors of Fascioliasis". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 381. .
3. Schniebs K., Glöer P., Vinarski M. V., Quiñonero-Salgado S., Lopez-Soriano J. & Hundsdoerfer A. K. (2017)."A new alien species in Europe: First record of Austropeplea viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Lymnaeidae) in Spain". Journal of Conchology 42(5): 357-370.