Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Hygrophila > Superfamily Lymnaeoidea > Family Lymnaeidae > Subfamily Lymnaeinae > Tribe Lymnaeini > Genus Lymnaea

Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Helix Mitch.

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lymnaea*	Lamarck, 1799	accepted genus name
*Limnaeus*	C. Pfeiffer, 1821	orthographic variant
*Limnaea*	Blainville, 1824	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: kërmilli i madh i kënetës 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.

Danish: stor mosesnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone poelslak sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: great pondsnail; swamp lymnaea 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: Große Schlammschnecke; Spitzhorn; SpitzhornSchlammschnecke; Spitzschlammschnecke 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.

Russian: Прудовик большой, или озерный

Swedish: stor dammsnäcka

Literature

additional source	Pip, E. (1983). Variability in North American Lymnaea stagnalis L. (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae). The Nautilus. 97(2): 77-79, fig. 1.
additional source	Pip, E. (1977). Frequent scalariformy in a population of the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis. The Nautilus. 91(2): 52-54, fig. 1.
additional source	Pip, E. (1975). Scalariformy in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis. The Nautilus. 89(2): 36-37, fig. 1.
additional source	Baker, F. C. (1942). Lymnaea stagnalis and Lymnaea (Radix) auricularia. The Nautilus. 55(3): 105-106.
additional source	Abdel-Ghani, A. F. (1953). Lymnaea stagnalis in Egypt. The Nautilus. 67(2): 44-45.
additional source	Cunningham, R. O. (1863). On the occurrence of Lymnaea stagnalis in Scotland. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 3. 11(66): 462-463.
additional source	Glöer, P. & Pešić, V. (2012). The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species. ZooKeys. 219: 11-61. Sofia [4 September].
additional source	Noland, L. E. & Reichel, E. (1943). Life cycle of Lymnaea stagnalis completed at room temperature without access to air. The Nautilus. 57(1): 8-13, text-fig. 1.
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Baker, F. C. (1911). The Lymnaeidae of North and Middle America, recent and fossil. The Chicago Academy of Sciences, special publication. 3: 1-539.
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. Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:181582

Ruud A. Bank. Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/6061d6d0-88a1-4b83-acd1-ca1137505246