Biomphalaria
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Biomphalaria is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonates belonging to the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.[3][4]
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Biomphalaria | |
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An albino individual of Biomphalaria glabrata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Superorder: | Hygrophila |
Family: | Planorbidae |
Subfamily: | Planorbinae |
Tribe: | Helisomatini |
Genus: | Biomphalaria Preston, 1910[1] |
Type species | |
Biomphalaria smithi Preston, 1910 | |
Diversity[2] | |
34 species | |
Synonyms | |
Taphius (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855) Planorbis (Planorbina) (Haldeman, 1842) |
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Biomphalaria is the type genus of the tribe Biomphalariini. Both Planorbis and Taphius are synonyms for Biomphalaria.[3][5]
The shell of this species, like all planorbids is left coiling (sinistral), but is carried upside down and thus appears to be right coiling (dextral).