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  - Phylum - Mollusks - Mollusca
    - Class - Snails / Slugs - Gastropoda
      - Order - Aquatic Snails - Basommatophora
        
        Family - Fossarias / Pondsnails / Lanxs - Lymnaeidae
        
        Species - Dusky Fossaria - Galba dalli

Dusky Fossaria - Galba dalli

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Native Species

Global Rank: G5
State Rank: SNR

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General Description

Fossaria dalli is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the Fossarias and pond snails.

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- Russell, R. H. 1967. Freshwater Snails of the Family Lymnaeidae (Mollusca: Basommatophora) From Western Montana. M.S. Thesis. University of Montana, Missoula. 139 Pp.
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Citation for data on this website:
Dusky Fossaria — Galba dalli. MONTANA FIELD GUIDE™. Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved on October 1, 2026, from https://FieldGuide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=IMGASL1060