Helisoma is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Helisoma | |
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Helisoma anceps | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Superorder: | Hygrophila |
Family: | Planorbidae |
Tribe: | Helisomatini |
Genus: | Helisoma Swainson, 1840[1] |
Synonym:
Helisoma snails are an intermediate host of Megalodiscus temperatus.[3]
Species within the genus Helisoma include: