Austropeplea is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.[2]

Austropeplea
Austropeplea lessoni shels
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Lymnaeidae
Genus: Austropeplea
Cotton, 1942[1]
Type species
Lymnaea aruntalis Cotton & Godfrey, 1938
Synonyms

Kutikina Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997

Species

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Species within the genus Austropeplea include:

References

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  1. ^ Cotton (1942). Trans, roy. Soc. S. Aust. 66: 80.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ a b c d 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. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-381.
  4. ^ a b 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.
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  • Vinarski V. M. (2013) "One, two, or several? How many lymnaeid genera are there?" Ruthenica 23(1): 41-58.