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| Shell of Kessneria papillosa (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Subfamily: | Miratestinae |
| Genus: | Kessneria Walker & Ponder, 2001 |
| Type species | |
| Kessneria papillosa J. C. Walker & Ponder, 2001 | |
Kessneria is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.
Distribution
This genus is endemic to, and restricted to, northern Australia.
Species
Species within this genus include:
- Kessneria papillosa Walker & Ponder, 2001
References
- ^ Walker J. C. & Ponder W. (2001). "A new genus and species of Planorbidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Pulmonata) from northern Australia". Journal of Molluscan Studies 67: 153-160. abstract.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Kessneria J. C. Walker & Ponder, 2001. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818333 on 2021-04-12
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