{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.371669 - Austropeplea lessoni (Deshayes, 1830) - Lymnaeidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg | image_caption = ''Austropeplea lessoni'' shels | taxon = Austropeplea | authority = Cotton, 1942<ref>Cotton (1942). ''Trans, roy. Soc. S. Aust.'' '''66''': 80.</ref> | type_species= ''Lymnaea aruntalis'' <small>Cotton & Godfrey, 1938</small> | synonyms = * ''Austropeplea (Austropeplea)'' <small>Cotton, 1942</small> * ''Austropeplea (Kutikina)'' <small>Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997</small> junior subjective synonym * ''Glacilimnea'' <small>Iredale, 1943</small> * ''Kutikina'' <small>Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997</small> * ''Simlimnea'' <small>Iredale, 1943</small> (junior synonym) }}
'''''Austropeplea''''' is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.<ref name="WoRMS">Bouchet, P. (2015). ''Austropeplea'' Cotton, 1942. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724554 on 2016-12-19</ref>
== Species == Species within the genus ''Austropeplea'' include: * ''Austropeplea brazieri'' <small>(E. A. Smith, 1882)</small> * ''Austropeplea hamiltoni'' <small>(Dell, 1956)</small> * ''Austropeplea hispida'' <small>(Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997)</small> * ''Austropeplea huonensis'' <small>(Tenison Woods, 1876)</small> * ''Austropeplea subaquatilis'' <small>(Tate, 1880)</small> - the type species of the genus ''Austropeplea''<ref name="Correa 2010"/><ref name="Schniebs 2017"/> * ''Austropeplea tomentosa'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1855)</small>
;Synonyms= * ''Austropeplea lessoni'' <small>(Deshayes, 1830)</small><ref name="Correa 2010">Correa C. A., Escobar J. S., Durand P., Renaud F., David P., Jarne P., Pointier J.-P. & Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2010). "Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), vectors of Fascioliasis". ''BMC Evolutionary Biology'' '''10''': 381. {{doi|10.1186/1471-2148-10-381|doi-access=free}}.</ref>: synonym of ''Bullastra lessoni'' <small>(Deshayes, 1831)</small> (superseded combination) * ''Austropeplea ollula''<ref name="Correa 2010"/>: synonym of ''Orientogalba ollula'' <small>(A. A. Gould, 1859)</small> * ''Austropeplea papyracea'' <small>(Tate, 1880)</small>: synonym of ''Austropeplea subaquatilis'' <small>(Tate, 1880)</small> (unavailable name, based on a junior homonym) * ''Austropeplea viridis'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - synonym: ''Lymnaea viridis''<ref name="Correa 2010"/><ref name="Schniebs 2017">Schniebs K., Glöer P., Vinarski M. V., Quiñonero-Salgado S., Lopez-Soriano J. & Hundsdoerfer A. K. (2017)."A new alien species in Europe: First record of ''Austropeplea viridis'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Lymnaeidae) in Spain". ''Journal of Conchology'' '''42'''(5): 357-370.</ref>: synonym of ''Orientogalba viridis'' <small>(Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)</small> (superseded combination)
==Distribution== Species in this genus occur off Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.
== References == {{reflist}} * Vinarski V. M. (2013) "One, two, or several? How many lymnaeid genera are there?" ''Ruthenica'' '''23'''(1): 41-58.
== External links == * {{cite journal |last1=Cotton |first1=B.C. |title=Some Australian freshwater Gasteropoda |journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia |date=1942 |volume=66 |page=80 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41569225 |access-date=14 April 2026}} * {{cite journal |last1=Ponder, W.; Waterhouse, J. |title=A new genus and species of Lymnaeidae from the lower Franklin River, south western Tasmania, Australia |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |date=1997 |volume=63 |issue=3 |page=442 |url=https://academic.oup.com/mollus/article-pdf/63/3/441/18779630/63-3-441.pdf}} * {{cite journal |last1=Iredale |first1=T. |title=A basic list of the fresh water Mollusca of Australia. |journal=he Australian Zoologist. |date=1943 |volume=10 |issue=2 |page=213 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39362310}} * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39362310 Ponder, W. F.; Hallan, A.; Shea, M.; Clark, S. A. (2016). Australian Freshwater Molluscs.] * {{cite journal |last1=Puslednik, L.; Ponder, W. F.; Dowton, M.; Davis, A. R. |title=Examining the phylogeny of the Australasian Lymnaeidae (Heterobranchia: Pulmonata: Gastropoda) using mitochondrial, nuclear and morphological markers. |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. |date=2009 |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=643-659 |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2009.03.033}}
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Category:Austropeplea
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