Leichhardtia

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Leichhardtia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Leichhardtia
Walker, 1988

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

[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] References

http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/67/2/153.pdf


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