Galba
Temporal range:
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| Shells of Galba truncatula
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Mollusca
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| Class:
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Gastropoda
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| Superorder:
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Hygrophila
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| Superfamily:
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Lymnaeoidea
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| Family:
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Lymnaeidae
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| Genus:
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Galba
Schrank, 1803
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| Type species
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Buccinum truncatulum O. F. Müller, 1774
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| Synonyms
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- Fossaria Westerlund, 1885
- Fossaria (Bakerilymnaea) Weyrauch, 1964
- Galba (Bakerilymnaea) Weyrauch, 1964
- Galba (Galba) Schrank, 1803
- Galba (Pseudogalba) F. C. Baker, 1913· accepted, alternate representation
- Galba (Sibirigalba) Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985
- Galba (Simpsonia) F.C. Baker, 1911 (Invalid: junior homonym of Simpsonia Rochebrune, 1905 [Bivalvia])
- Limnaea (Fossaria) Westerlund, 1885 (a junior synonym)
- Limnaea (Galba) Schrank, 1803 (genus misspelling; Galba is a separate genus)
- Limnaea (Truncatuliana) Servain, 1882 (invalid: junior objective synonym of Galba)
- † Limneus (Entochilius) F. Sandberger, 1880 (junior synonym)
- Lymnaea (Galba) Schrank, 1803 (elevated to genus level)
- Nasonia F. C. Baker, 1928 (invalid: junior homonym of Nasonia Ashmead, 1904 [Hymenoptera]; Bakerilymnaea is a replacement name)
- Sphaerogalba Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985 (a junior synonym)
- Truncatuliana Servain, 1881 (invalid: junior objective synonym of Galba)
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Galba is a genus of tiny oxygen breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
Within the genus, the most widely recognized species is Galba truncatula.
The genus Galba is recognized from the Jurassic to the most recent periods.