Galba is a genus of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.[4]

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Galba
Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent
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Shells of Galba truncatula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Lymnaeidae
Genus: Galba
Schrank, 1803[1]
Type species
Buccinum truncatulum O. F. Müller, 1774
Synonyms[2][3][4]
  • Fossaria Westerlund, 1885[5]
  • 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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The best-known species in the genus is Galba truncatula.

The genus Galba is known from the Jurassic to the Recent periods.[6]

Species

Species within the genus Galba include:

  • Galba bulimoides or Fossaria (Bakerilymnaea) bulimoides (I. Lea, 1841)[7]
  • Galba cousini (Jousseaume, 1887)
  • Galba cubensis (Pfeiffer, 1839)
  • Galba cyclostoma (Walker, 1908) (synonym: Fossaria cyclostoma (Walker, 1808))
  • Galba dalli (F.C. Baker, 1907)
  • Galba dupuyiana (Noulet, 1854)
  • Galba exigua (I. Lea, 1841)
  • Galba galbana Say, 1825) (synonym: Fossaria galbana Say, 1825)[8]
  • Galba gaudryi Wenz, 1922
  • Galba halavatsi Wenz, 1922
  • Galba meridensis (Bargues, Artigas, Khoubbane & Mas-Coma, 2011)
  • Galba minor (Thomä, 1845)
  • Galba modicella (Say, 1825)
  • Galba neotropica (Bargues, Artigas, Mera y Sierra, Pointier & Mas-Coma, 2007)[9]
  • Galba obrussa (Say, 1825)
  • Galba parva (I. Lea, 1841) (synonym: Fossaria parva (I.Lea, 1841))
  • Galba pervia (Martens, 1867)[10]
  • Galba schirazensis Küster, 1862[11]
  • Galba sibirica (Westerlund, 1885)
  • Galba subminuta (Almera & Bofill y Poch, 1895)
  • Galba suboblonga (Kovalenko, 1994)
  • Galba subpalustris - a fossil species from the late Miocene
  • Galba viatrix (d'Orbigny, 1835)
Subgenus Galba (Galba) Schrank, 1803
  • Galba (Galba) bulimoides (Klein, 1846) nomen dubium
  • Galba (Galba) cornea (Brongniart, 1810)
  • Galba (Galba) kenesensis (Halaváts, 1903)
  • Galba (Galba) phrygopalustris (Oppenheim, 1919)
  • Galba (Galba) praepalustris (Roman, 1907)
  • Galba (Galba) sandbergeri (Łomnicki, 1886)
  • Galba (Galba) subtruncatula (Clessin, 1885)
  • Galba (Galba) suevica (Wenz, 1916)
  • Galba (Galba) truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774)[12] - the type species
Species brought into synonymy
  • Galba dupuyana (Noulet, 1854): synonym of † Galba dupuyiana (Noulet, 1854)
  • Galba jaccardi (Maillard, 1892): synonym of † Stagnicola jaccardi (Maillard, 1892)
  • Galba montanensis F. C. Baker, 1913: synonym of Walterigalba montanensis (F. C. Baker, 1913)
  • Galba occulta Jackiewicz, 1959: synonym of Ladislavella terebra (Westerlund, 1885)
  • Galba pusilla Schrank, 1803: synonym of Galba truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • Galba (Galba) armaniacensis (Noulet, 1857): synonym of † Stagnicola armaniacensis (Noulet, 1857)
  • Galba (Galba) bouilleti (Michaud, 1855): synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti (Michaud, 1855)
  • Galba (Galba) glabra (Müller, 1774): synonym of † Omphiscola glabra (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • Galba (Galba) heriacensis (Fontannes, 1876): synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti (Michaud, 1855)
  • Galba (Galba) jaccardi (Maillard, 1892): synonym of † Stagnicola jaccardi (Maillard, 1892)
  • Galba (Galba) kreutzii (Łomnicki, 1886): synonym of † Stagnicola kreutzii (Łomnicki, 1886)
  • Galba (Galba) palustris (Müller, 1774): synonym of Stagnicola palustris (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • Galba (Galba) rouvillei (Fontannes, 1879): synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti (Michaud, 1855)
  • Galba (Galba) subfragilis (d'Orbigny, 1852): synonym of † Lymnaea subfragilis d'Orbigny, 1852
  • Galba (Galba) subpalustris (Thomä, 1845): synonym of † Stagnicola subpalustris (Thomä, 1845)

References

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