Ampullariidae
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Ampullariidae, whose members are commonly known as apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails that includes the mystery snail species.[4] They are aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum. These snails simultaneously have a gill and a lung as functional respiratory structures, which are separated by a division of the mantle cavity. This adaptation allows these animals to be amphibious. Species in this family are considered gonochoristic, meaning that each individual organism is either male or female.
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Ampullariidae | |
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Spike-topped apple snail Pomacea bridgesii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
Family: | Ampullariidae J. E. Gray, 1824[2] |
Diversity[1][3] | |
105–170 freshwater species; 9 genera; more than 150 nominal species | |
Synonyms | |
Pilidae |
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