Austropeplea
Genus of gastropods
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Austropeplea is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.[2]
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| Austropeplea | |
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| Austropeplea lessoni shels | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae |
| Genus: | Austropeplea Cotton, 1942[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lymnaea aruntalis Cotton & Godfrey, 1938 | |
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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)
- Synonyms=
- Austropeplea lessoni (Deshayes, 1830):[3] synonym of Bullastra lessoni (Deshayes, 1831) (superseded combination)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(Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - synonym: Lymnaea viridis:[3][4] synonym of Orientogalba viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) (superseded combination)
Distribution
Species in this genus occur off Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.
