Aplexa venezuelensis is a species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae, a family which are sometimes known as the bladder snails.

Description The snail can attain a shell length of and a diameter of .

(Original description in Latin) This shell is ovate and lustrous and contains five whorls.It features a thin, striped, pale horn-colored surface. It tapers to a sharp, dark apex, and its suture is ridged and cross-hatched with a rusty hue. The oblong aperture narrows gradually upwards. It accounts for five-sixths of the shell's total length, and it possesses a small, white columellar fold.

Distribution This species occurs in Venezuela.

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