Segmentina
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| Segmentina | |
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| Apical view of a shell of Segmentina nitida | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Subfamily: | Planorbinae |
| Tribe: | Segmentinini |
| Genus: | Segmentina Fleming, 1818[1] |
Segmentina is a genus of very small, air-breathing, freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails.
Albrecht et al. (2007)[2] have confirmed the placement of this genus in the tribe Segmentinini within subfamily Planorbinae.[2]
