| Physella | |
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| A live individual of Physella acuta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Physidae |
| Tribe: | Physellini |
| Genus: | Physella Haldeman, 1842[1] |
Physella is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.
These snails eat algae, diatoms and other detritus.
- ^ Haldeman, S. S. 1842-1847. A monograph of the freshwater univalve Mollusca of the United States, including notices of species in other parts of North America. pp. [9 parts], [40 plates]. Philadelphia.