Orientogalba

Orientogalba
Shell of Orientogalba viridis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Lymnaeidae
Genus: Orientogalba
Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985
Type species
Lymnaea heptapotamica Lazareva, 1967
Synonyms
  • Lymnaea (Orientogalba) Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985 superseded rank
  • Lymnaea (Viridigalba) Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985 (a junior synonym)
  • Orientogalba (Lenagalba) Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985 (a junior synonym)
  • Viridigalba Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985 (a junior synonym)

Orientogalba is a genus of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.[1]

Species

Species within this genus include:

  • Orientogalba bowelli (Preston, 1909)
  • Orientogalba heptapotamica (Lazareva, 1967)
  • Orientogalba hokkaidoensis Aksenova, Bolotov, Vinarski, Ohari & Itagaki, 2024
  • Orientogalba lenaensis (Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985)
  • Orientogalba ollula (A. A. Gould, 1859)
  • Orientogalba viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
Synonyms
  • Subgenus Orientogalba (Lenagalba) Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985: synonym of Orientogalba Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985 (a junior synonym)
  • Orientogalba hookeri (Reeve, 1850): synonym of Tibetoradix hookeri (Reeve, 1850) (a junior synonym)
  • Orientogalba tumrokensis (Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985): synonym of Ladislavella (Walterilymnaea) catascopium tumrokensis (Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985) represented as Ladislavella catascopium tumrokensis (Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985)

References

  1. ^ Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2026). "Orientogalba Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2026-04-13.
  • Kruglov N.D., Starobogatov Ya.I. (1985). The volume of the subgenus Galba and of other similar subgenera of the genus Lymnaea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal. 64(1): 24-35. (In Russian).