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Great Pond Snail

Lymnaea stagnalis

Classification

Order

Lymnaea stagnalis, better known as the great pond snail, is a species of large air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae. The great pond snail is a model organism to study parasitology, neurology, embryonal development and genetic regulation. Limnaea stagnalis var.

Distribution

Dick Belgers · CC BY
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Netherlands · 9,314Germany · 4,330United Kingdom · 2,136France · 664Switzerland · 570Belgium · 166Italy · 100Luxembourg · 64Spain · 52