# Galba (gastropod)

Galba is a genus of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
The best-known species in the genus is Galba truncatula.
The genus Galba is known from the Jurassic to the Recent periods.

## Species

Species within the genus Galba include:
* Galba bulimoides or Fossaria (Bakerilymnaea) bulimoides (I. Lea, 1841)
* Galba cousini (Jousseaume, 1887)
* Galba cubensis (Pfeiffer, 1839)
* Galba cyclostoma (Walker, 1908) (synonym: Fossaria cyclostoma (Walker, 1808))
* Galba dalli (F.C. Baker, 1907)
* † Galba dupuyiana (Noulet, 1854)
* Galba exigua (I. Lea, 1841)
* Galba galbana Say, 1825) (synonym: Fossaria galbana Say, 1825)
* †Galba gaudryi Wenz, 1922
* † Galba halavatsi Wenz, 1922
* Galba meridensis (Bargues, Artigas, Khoubbane & Mas-Coma, 2011)
* † Galba minor (Thomä, 1845)
* Galba modicella (Say, 1825)
* Galba neotropica (Bargues, Artigas, Mera y Sierra, Pointier & Mas-Coma, 2007)
* Galba obrussa (Say, 1825)
* Galba parva (I. Lea, 1841) (synonym: Fossaria parva (I.Lea, 1841))
* Galba pervia (Martens, 1867)
* Galba schirazensis Küster, 1862
* Galba sibirica (Westerlund, 1885)
* † Galba subminuta (Almera & Bofill y Poch, 1895)
* † Galba suboblonga (Kovalenko, 1994)
* † Galba subpalustris - a fossil species from the late Miocene
* Galba viatrix (d'Orbigny, 1835)

### Subgenus Galba (Galba) Schrank, 1803

* † Galba (Galba) bulimoides (Klein, 1846) nomen dubium
* † Galba (Galba) cornea (Brongniart, 1810)
* † Galba (Galba) kenesensis (Halaváts, 1903)
* † Galba (Galba) phrygopalustris (Oppenheim, 1919)
* † Galba (Galba) praepalustris (Roman, 1907)
* † Galba (Galba) sandbergeri (Łomnicki, 1886)
* † Galba (Galba) subtruncatula (Clessin, 1885)
* † Galba (Galba) suevica (Wenz, 1916)
* Galba (Galba) truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774) - the type species

### Species brought into synonymy

* † Galba dupuyana (Noulet, 1854): synonym of † Galba dupuyiana (Noulet, 1854)
* † Galba jaccardi (Maillard, 1892): synonym of † Stagnicola jaccardi (Maillard, 1892)
* Galba montanensis F. C. Baker, 1913: synonym of Walterigalba montanensis (F. C. Baker, 1913)
* Galba occulta Jackiewicz, 1959: synonym of Ladislavella terebra (Westerlund, 1885)
* Galba pusilla Schrank, 1803: synonym of Galba truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* † Galba (Galba) armaniacensis (Noulet, 1857): synonym of † Stagnicola armaniacensis (Noulet, 1857)
* † Galba (Galba) bouilleti (Michaud, 1855): synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti (Michaud, 1855)
* † Galba (Galba) glabra (Müller, 1774): synonym of † Omphiscola glabra (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* † Galba (Galba) heriacensis (Fontannes, 1876): synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti (Michaud, 1855)
* † Galba (Galba) jaccardi (Maillard, 1892): synonym of † Stagnicola jaccardi (Maillard, 1892)
* † Galba (Galba) kreutzii (Łomnicki, 1886): synonym of † Stagnicola kreutzii (Łomnicki, 1886)
* Galba (Galba) palustris (Müller, 1774): synonym of Stagnicola palustris (O. F. Müller, 1774)
* † Galba (Galba) rouvillei (Fontannes, 1879): synonym of † Stagnicola bouilleti (Michaud, 1855)
* † Galba (Galba) subfragilis (d'Orbigny, 1852): synonym of † Lymnaea subfragilis d'Orbigny, 1852
* † Galba (Galba) subpalustris (Thomä, 1845): synonym of † Stagnicola subpalustris (Thomä, 1845)