Physa

Physa
Five shells of Physa fontinalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Physidae
Genus: Physa
Draparnaud, 1801[1]
Type species
Bulla fontinalis
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
  • Laurentiphysa Taylor, 2003 (a junior synonym)
  • Limnea (Physa) Draparnaud, 1801
  • Physa (Diastropha) Gray, 1840
  • Physa (Gyrina) Schumacher, 1817
  • Physa (Laurentiphysa) Taylor, 2003 (a junior synonym)
  • Physa (Mediterraneophysa) Starobogatov & Budnikova, 1976 (a junior synonym)
  • Physa (Physa) Draparnaud, 1801
  • Physa (Ussuriphysa) Starobogatov & Prozorova, 1989
  • Rivicola Fitzinger, 1833 (Invalid: junior objective synonym of Physa, with the same type species)

Physa is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Physinae of the family Physidae.[2]

These snails eat algae, diatoms and detritus.

  1. ^ Draparnaud J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. – pp. [1–2], 1–116. Montpellier, Paris. (Renaud; Bossange, Masson & Besson).
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Physa Draparnaud, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181551 on 2021-06-26