Physidae
| Physidae | |
|---|---|
| A live individual of Physella acuta from the Mediterranean area | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Physidae Fitzinger, 1833 |
| Type genus | |
| Physa Draparnaud, 1801 | |
| Diversity | |
| About 80 freshwater species | |
Physidae, commonly called the bladder snails, is a family of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Lymnaeoidea.