Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Hygrophila > Superfamily Lymnaeoidea > Family Physidae > Subfamily Physinae

Physella Haldeman, 1842

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Physa (Physella)*	Haldeman, 1843	synonym

Children

Physella acuta (Draparnaud, 1805)
Physella gyrina (Say, 1821)

Literature

basis of record	Taylor, D. W. (2003). Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila); biogeography, classification, morphology. Revista de Biología Tropical. 51(Suppl. 1): 1-263 (includes a Catalog of species, pp. 197-263).
additional source	Albrecht, C.; Clewing, C.; Seebens, H.; Chibwana, F. D.; Da Silva, E. L.; Leal, M. F.; Lingofo Bolaya, R.; Marwoto, R. M.; Odaibo, A.; Pinheiro, T. G.; Popoola, M. O.; Riedel, F.; Stelbrink, B. (2025). When One Global Invasion Hides Another—Cryptic Interspecific Invasion in Freshwater Gastropods. Diversity and Distributions. 31: e13958.
status source	Bank, R. A. (2011). Authorships and publication dates in malacology: some notes on the 2011 French Checklist of Welter-Schultes & al. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 86: 13-24. Frankfurt am Main [December].
taxonomy source	Young, M. K.; Smith, R.; Pilgrim, K. L.; Schwartz, M. K. (2021). Molecular species delimitation refines the taxonomy of native and nonnative physinine snails in North America. Scientific Reports. 11(1).

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Physella Haldeman, 1842. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160462

Ruud A. Bank. Physella Haldeman, 1842. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/ea92ff79-d98e-4037-97a8-68b1bbf4cdec