Galba (gastropod)

Galba is a genus of tiny oxygen breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.^[4]

Galba Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Shells of Galba truncatula
Scientific classification
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)

Within the genus, the most widely recognized species is Galba truncatula.

The genus Galba is recognized from the Jurassic to the most 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)