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  Subclass Heterobranchia

Infraclass Pulmonata

    Order Hygrophila -- Wisconsin!
    Order Stylommatophora -- Wisconsin!
    Superfamily Ellobioidea -- midwestern North America.
    Superfamily Amphiboloidea
    Superfamily Otinoidea
    Order Systellommatophora
    Superfamily Trimusculoidea

Taxon Information

The Infraclass Pulmonata has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Pulmonata, [North America] (Brown & Lydeard, 2010).
• Pulmonata, (Strong et al., 2008).
• Pulmonata, (Clench, 1959).

Bibliography

• Brown, K.M. & C. Lydeard. 2010. Mollusca: Gastropoda. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 277-307.
• Strong, E.E., O. Gargominy, W.F. Ponder & P. Bouchet. 2008. Global diversity of gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. [Available online]
• Clench, W.J. 1959. Mollusca. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 1117-1160.

Student Essays

• "Freshwater Pulmonate (Mollusca: Gastropoda) Reproduction" by Rachel Sommer (BIOL/WATR 361, Fall 2013 )

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