Galba (gastropod)

Galba; Temporal range:
	Shells of Galba truncatula
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Superfamily:	Lymnaeoidea
Family:	Lymnaeidae
Genus:	Galba; Schrank, 1803
Type species
	Buccinum truncatulum O. F. Müller, 1774;
Synonyms
	Fossaria Westerlund, 1885; Fossaria (Bakerilymnaea) Weyrauch, 1964; Galba (Bakerilymnaea) Weyrauch, 1964; Galba (Galba) Schrank, 1803; Galba (Pseudogalba) F. C. Baker, 1913· accepted, alternate representation; Galba (Sibirigalba) Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985; Galba (Simpsonia) F.C. Baker, 1911 (Invalid: junior homonym of Simpsonia Rochebrune, 1905 [Bivalvia]); Limnaea (Fossaria) Westerlund, 1885 (a junior synonym); Limnaea (Galba) Schrank, 1803 (genus misspelling; Galba is a separate genus); Limnaea (Truncatuliana) Servain, 1882 (invalid: junior objective synonym of Galba); † Limneus (Entochilius) F. Sandberger, 1880 (junior synonym); Lymnaea (Galba) Schrank, 1803 (elevated to genus level); Nasonia F. C. Baker, 1928 (invalid: junior homonym of Nasonia Ashmead, 1904 [Hymenoptera]; Bakerilymnaea is a replacement name); Sphaerogalba Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985 (a junior synonym); Truncatuliana Servain, 1881 (invalid: junior objective synonym of Galba);

Galba is a genus of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

The best-known species in the genus is Galba truncatula.

The genus Galba is known from the Jurassic to the Recent periods.

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