Austropeplea

Austropeplea
	Austropeplea lessoni shels
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Lymnaeidae
Genus:	Austropeplea; Cotton, 1942
Type species
	Lymnaea aruntalis Cotton & Godfrey, 1938;
Synonyms
	Austropeplea (Austropeplea) Cotton, 1942; Austropeplea (Kutikina) Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997 junior subjective synonym; Glacilimnea Iredale, 1943; Kutikina Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997; Simlimnea Iredale, 1943 (junior synonym);

Austropeplea is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Austropeplea include:

Austropeplea brazieri (E. A. Smith, 1882)
Austropeplea hamiltoni (Dell, 1956)
Austropeplea hispida (Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997)
Austropeplea huonensis (Tenison Woods, 1876)
Austropeplea subaquatilis (Tate, 1880) - the type species of the genus Austropeplea^[3]^[4]
Austropeplea tomentosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)

Austropeplea lessoni (Deshayes, 1830):^[3] synonym of Bullastra lessoni (Deshayes, 1831) (superseded combination)
Austropeplea ollula:^[3] synonym of Orientogalba ollula (A. A. Gould, 1859)
Austropeplea papyracea (Tate, 1880): synonym of Austropeplea subaquatilis (Tate, 1880) (unavailable name, based on a junior homonym)
Austropeplea viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - synonym: Lymnaea viridis:^[3]^[4] synonym of Orientogalba viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) (superseded combination)

Species in this genus occur off Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.

↑ Cotton (1942). Trans, roy. Soc. S. Aust. 66: 80.
↑ Bouchet, P. (2015). Austropeplea Cotton, 1942. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724554 on 2016-12-19
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Cotton, B.C. (1942). "Some Australian freshwater Gasteropoda". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 66: 80. Retrieved 14 April 2026.
Ponder, W.; Waterhouse, J. (1997). "A new genus and species of Lymnaeidae from the lower Franklin River, south western Tasmania, Australia" (PDF). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 63 (3): 442.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Iredale, T. (1943). "A basic list of the fresh water Mollusca of Australia". The Australian Zoologist. 10 (2): 213.
Ponder, W. F.; Hallan, A.; Shea, M.; Clark, S. A. (2016). Australian Freshwater Molluscs.
Puslednik, L.; Ponder, W. F.; Dowton, M.; Davis, A. R. (2009). "Examining the phylogeny of the Australasian Lymnaeidae (Heterobranchia: Pulmonata: Gastropoda) using mitochondrial, nuclear and morphological markers". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52 (3): 643–659.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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