Lymnaea

Lymnaea Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
The large snail is Lymnaea stagnalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:	Lymnaeoidea
Family:	Lymnaeidae
Subfamily:	Lymnaeinae
Genus:	Lymnaea Lamarck, 1799
Type species
Helix stagnalis Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
Limneus Sandberger, 1875 (invalid: unjustified emendation of Lymnaea) Lymnaea (Kazakhlymnaea) Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1984 Lymnaea (Lymnaea) Lamarck, 1799 Lymnaeus (incorrect subsequent spelling)

Lymnaea is a genus of small to large-sized air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails. Some species are used in aquaculture under the name Melantho snails.

Lymnaea is the type genus of the family Lymnaeidae.

Species within the genus Lymnaea include: