Leichhardtia (gastropod)

Leichhardtia is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Leichhardtia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Miratestinae
Genus: Leichhardtia
Walker, 1988[1]

All species within this genus and this family have sinistral shells.

Distribution

edit

This genus is endemic to, and restricted to, northern Australia.

Species

edit

Species within this genus include:

See also

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ Walker (1988). Rec. Aust. Mus. 40 (1-2): 81.