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| A shell of Radix auricularia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae |
| Genus: | Radix Montfort, 1810[1] |
| Type species | |
| Radix auriculatus Montfort, 1810 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Radix is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropods in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.[2]
The genus Radix has a Palaearctic distribution.[3]
- ^ Montfort D. de 1810. Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique des coquilles; offrant leurs figures, leur arrangement générique, leurs descriptions caractéristiques, leurs noms; ainsi que leur synonymie en plusieurs langues. Ouvrage destiné à faciliter l'étude des coquilles, ainsi que leur disposition dans les cabinets d'histoire naturelle. Coquilles univalves, non cloisonnées. Tome second. pp. [1-3], 1-676. Paris. (Schoell).
- ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Radix Montfort, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=248262 on 2013-06-06
- ^ Pfenninger, M.; Cordellier, M.; Streit, B. (2006). "Comparing the efficacy of morphologic and DNA-based taxonomy in the freshwater gastropod genus Radix (Basommatophora, Pulmonata)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 6: 100. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-100. PMC 1679812. PMID 17123437.