Galba truncatula
| Galba truncatula | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae |
| Genus: | Galba |
| Species: | G. truncatula |
| Binomial name | |
| Galba truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774) | |
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Galba truncatula is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
Until recently, this species was known as Lymnaea truncatula.
Galba truncatula is the vector mainly involved in fascioliasis transmission to humans.
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