Kessneria

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Kessneria is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.[2]

Phylum:Mollusca
Superorder:Hygrophila
Superfamily:Lymnaeoidea
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Kessneria
Shell of Kessneria papillosa (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Miratestinae
Genus: Kessneria
Walker & Ponder, 2001[1]
Type species
Kessneria papillosa J. C. Walker & Ponder, 2001
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All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to, and restricted to, northern Australia.[1]

Species

Species within this genus include:

References

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