Kessneria
Genus of gastropods
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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]
| Kessneria | |
|---|---|
| Shell of Kessneria papillosa (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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 | |
All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.