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 > Genus Physella

Physella acuta (Draparnaud, 1805)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Physella*	Haldeman, 1842	accepted genus name
*Physa (Physella)*	Haldeman, 1843	synonym

Species group names

*Physa acuta*	Draparnaud, 1805	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: kërmilli mëshikëz me majë sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Dutch: puntige blaashoren sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: acute bladder snail; European physa; pointed bladder snail; tadpole snail sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Spitze Blasenschnecke sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Swedish: sydeuropeisk båtsnäcka

Literature

basis of record	Vinarski M. (2017). The history of an invasion: phases of the explosive spread of the physid snail Physella acuta through Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. Biological Invasions. 19: 1299-1314.
additional source	Gerlach, J. (2006). Terrestrial and freshwater Mollusca of the Seychelles islands. 1-141.
additional source	Nehring, S. (2006). Four arguments why so many alien species settle into estuaries, with special reference to the German river Elbe. Helgol. Mar. Res. 60(2): 127-134.
additional source	Czaja, A.; Meza-Sánchez, I. G.; Estrada-Rodríguez, J. L.; Romero-Méndez, U.; Sáenz-Mata, J.; Ávila-Rodríguez, V.; Becerra-López, J. L.; Estrada-Arellano, J. R.; Cardoza-Martínez, G. F.; Aguillón-Gutiérrez, D. R.; Cordero-Torres, D. G.; Covich, A. P. (2020). The freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Mexico: updated checklist, endemicity hotspots, threats and conservation status. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. 91: e912909.
additional source	Ebbs, E.T., Loker, E.S. & Brant, S.V. (2018). Phylogeny and genetics of the globally invasive snail Physa acuta Draparnaud 1805, and its potential to serve as an intermediate host to larval digenetic trematodes. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18:103.
additional source	Neubert, E. (1998). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial and freshwater molluscs of the Arabian Peninsula with descriptions of new species. Fauna of Arabia. 17: 333-461.
status source	Lydeard C., Campbell D. & Golz M. (2016). Physa acuta Draparnaud, 1805 should be treated as a native of North America, not Europe. Malacologia. 59(2): 347-350.
taxonomy 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.
identification resource	Rowson, B., Powell, H., Willing, M., Dobson, M. & Shaw, H. (2021). Freshwater Snails of Britain and Ireland. FSC Publications, Telford, UK.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Physella acuta (Draparnaud, 1805). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=234093