| Physidae | |
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| A live individual of Physella acuta from the Mediterranean area | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Infraclass: | Euthyneura |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Physidae Fitzinger, 1833[1] |
| Type genus | |
| Physa Draparnaud, 1801 | |
| Diversity[2] | |
| About 80 freshwater species | |
Physidae, commonly called the bladder snails, is a family of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Lymnaeoidea .[3][4]
- ^ Fitzinger L. (1833). Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreich's unter der Enns, Bd. 3: 110.
- ^ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Bouchet 2005was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Physidae Fitzinger, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160452 on 2021-06-26