MolluscaBase - Lymnaea (Fossaria) Westerlund, 1885

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Lymnaea (Fossaria) Westerlund, 1885

AphiaID

1595652 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1595652)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Galba Schrank, 1803

Rank

Subgenus

Parent

Lymnaea Lamarck, 1799

Original name

Limnaea (Fossaria) Westerlund, 1885

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Species Lymnaea (Fossaria) perplexa (F. C. Baker & J. Henderson, 1929) accepted as Galba perplexa (F. C. Baker & J. Henderson, 1929) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Limnaea (Fossaria) Westerlund, 1885) Westerlund, C. A. (1885). <i>Fauna der in der paläarctischen Region (...) lebenden Binnenconchylien</i>. V. Fam. Succinidae, Auriculidae, Limnaeidae, Cyclostomidae & Hydrocenidae. – Lund: Håkan Ohlsson. 135 + 14 (Register) + 8 (Zweite Beilage [Nachträge und Berichtigungen zum Heft IV (I): pp 1-7; Bemerkungen zum Heft V (II]): pp. 7-8] pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10887246
page(s): 24, 49 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lymnaea (Fossaria) Westerlund, 1885. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1595652 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2022-07-25 16:51:30Z

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Auffenberg, Kurt

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Sources (1)

original description (of Limnaea (Fossaria) Westerlund, 1885) Westerlund, C. A. (1885). <i>Fauna der in der paläarctischen Region (...) lebenden Binnenconchylien</i>. V. Fam. Succinidae, Auriculidae, Limnaeidae, Cyclostomidae & Hydrocenidae. – Lund: Håkan Ohlsson. 135 + 14 (Register) + 8 (Zweite Beilage [Nachträge und Berichtigungen zum Heft IV (I): pp 1-7; Bemerkungen zum Heft V (II]): pp. 7-8] pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10887246
page(s): 24, 49 [details]