Galba (gastropod)
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.Species
Species within the genus Galba include:
- Galba bulimoides or Fossaria bulimoides
- Galba cousini
- Galba cubensis
- Galba dalli
- † Galba dupuyiana
- Galba exigua
- †Galba gaudryi Wenz, 1922
- † Galba halavatsi Wenz, 1922
- † Galba minor
- Galba modicella
- Galba neotropica
- Galba obrussa
- Galba parva
- Galba pervia
- Galba schirazensis Küster, 1862
- Galba sibirica
- † Galba subminuta
- † Galba suboblonga
- † Galba subpalustris - a fossil species from the late Miocene
- Galba viatrix
;Subgenus Galba Schrank, 1803
- † Galba bulimoides
- † Galba cornea
- † Galba kenesensis
- † Galba phrygopalustris
- † Galba praepalustris
- † Galba sandbergeri
- † Galba subtruncatula
- † Galba suevica
- Galba truncatula - the type species
;Species brought into synonymy:
- † Galba dupuyana : synonym of † Galba dupuyiana
- † Galba jaccardi : synonym of †Stagnicola jaccardi
- Galba montanensis F. C. Baker, 1913: synonym of Walterigalba montanensis
- Galba occulta Jackiewicz, 1959: synonym of Ladislavella terebra
- Galba pusilla Schrank, 1803: synonym of Galba truncatula
- † Galba armaniacensis : synonym of † Stagnicola armaniacensis
- † Galba bouilleti : synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti
- † Galba glabra : synonym of † Omphiscola glabra
- † Galba heriacensis : synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti
- † Galba jaccardi : synonym of † Stagnicola jaccardi
- † Galba kreutzii : synonym of † Stagnicola kreutzii
- Galba palustris : synonym of Stagnicola palustris
- † Galba rouvillei : synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti
- † Galba subfragilis : synonym of † Lymnaea subfragilis d'Orbigny, 1852
- † Galba subpalustris : synonym of † Stagnicola subpalustris
