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Moss Bladder Snail

Aplexa hypnorum

Classification

Order
Family
Physidae

Aplexa hypnorum, or by the common name, the moss bladder snail, is a species of small air-breathing freshwater snail. It is an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae, which are sometimes known as the bladder snails. As is true of all physids, the shell is sinistral, or left-handed.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 221Switzerland · 101United Kingdom · 85France · 68Germany · 50Belgium · 26Italy · 3Luxembourg · 1