Galba (gastropod)

Galba Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Shells of Galba truncatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:	Lymnaeoidea
Family:	Lymnaeidae
Subfamily:	Lymnaeinae
Genus:	Galba Schrank, 1803
Type species
Buccinum truncatulum O. F. Müller, 1774
Synonyms
Fossaria Westerlund, 1885 Galba (Bakerilymnaea) Weyrauch, 1964 Galba (Galba) Schrank, 1803 Galba (Sibirigalba) Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1985 Limnaea (Galba) Schrank, 1803 (genus misspelling; Galba is a separate genus) Lymnaea (Galba) Schrank, 1803 (elevated to genus level) Nasonia F. C. Baker, 1928 (invalid: junior homonym of Nasonia Ashmead, 1904 [Hymenoptera]; Bakerilymnaea is a replacement name) Truncatuliana Servain, 1881 (invalid: junior objective synonym of Galba)

Galba is a genus of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

The best-known species in the genus is Galba truncatula.

The genus Galba is known from the Jurassic to the Recent periods.

Species within the genus Galba include: