Austropeplea is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.Bouchet, P. (2015). Austropeplea Cotton, 1942. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724554 on 2016-12-19
Species Species within the genus Austropeplea include: Austropeplea brazieri (E. A. Smith, 1882) Austropeplea hamiltoni (Dell, 1956) Austropeplea hispida (Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997) Austropeplea huonensis (Tenison Woods, 1876) Austropeplea subaquatilis (Tate, 1880) - the type species of the genus Austropeplea Austropeplea tomentosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
Synonyms= Austropeplea lessoni (Deshayes, 1830):Correa C. A., Escobar J. S., Durand P., Renaud F., David P., Jarne P., Pointier J.-P. & Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2010). "Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), vectors of Fascioliasis". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 381. . synonym of Bullastra lessoni (Deshayes, 1831) (superseded combination) Austropeplea ollula: synonym of Orientogalba ollula (A. A. Gould, 1859) Austropeplea papyracea (Tate, 1880): synonym of Austropeplea subaquatilis (Tate, 1880) (unavailable name, based on a junior homonym) Austropeplea viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - synonym: Lymnaea viridis:Schniebs K., Glöer P., Vinarski M. V., Quiñonero-Salgado S., Lopez-Soriano J. & Hundsdoerfer A. K. (2017)."A new alien species in Europe: First record of Austropeplea viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Lymnaeidae) in Spain". Journal of Conchology 42(5): 357-370. synonym of Orientogalba viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) (superseded combination)
Distribution Species in this genus occur off Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.
References
Vinarski V. M. (2013) "One, two, or several? How many lymnaeid genera are there?" Ruthenica 23(1): 41-58.
External links
Ponder, W. F.; Hallan, A.; Shea, M.; Clark, S. A. (2016). Australian Freshwater Molluscs.