Myxas

Genus of gastropods

Myxas
Shells of Myxas glutinosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Lymnaeidae
Genus: Myxas
(G. B. Sowerby, 1822)[1]
Species

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Myxas is a genus of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

Distribution

This genus is European.

Species

Species within this genus include:

  • Myxas glutinosa (O. F. Müller, 1774) - type species

References

  1. ^ Sowerby G. B. (1820-1834). The Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells, for the use of students in Conchology and Geology. pp. [unnumbered] [1-3], 1-950, Pl. [1-133]. London.
Taxon identifiers
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