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Gundlachia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Orthogastropoda
Superorder:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Pulmonata
Suborder:	Basommatophora
Family:	Ancylidae
Genus:	Gundlachia; Pfeiffer, 1849
Species
	See text.

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(Note: Gundlachia is also the name of a genus of shrubs which live in the Caribbean islands.)

Gundlachia is a genus of minute freshwater snails or limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ancylidae, the river limpets. They have a world-wide distribution.

These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch". This serves as a gill as, in their non-tidal habitat, these limpets never reach the surface for air.

Species within the genus Gundlachia

Gundlachia concentrica (d’Orbigny, 1835)
Gundlachia lucasi Suter, 1905
Gundlachia meehiana Stimpson
Gundlachia moricandi (Orbigny, 1837)
Gundlachia neozelanica Suter, 1905
Gundlachia ticaga (Marcus & Marcus, 1962)

References

"Ozius". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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 (Note: ''Gundlachia'' is also the name of a genus of [[shrub]]s which live in the [[Caribbean]] islands.)
+'''''Gundlachia''''' is a [[genera|genus]] of minute freshwater snails or [[limpet]]s, [[aquatic]] [[pulmonate]] [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]]s in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Ancylidae]], the river limpets.  They have a world-wide distribution.
+These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch".  This serves as a [[gill]] as, in their non-tidal habitat, these limpets never reach the surface for air.
-'''''Gundlachia''''' is a [[genera|genus]] of minute air-breathing freshwater snails or [[limpet]]s, [[aquatic]] [[pulmonate]] [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]]s in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Ancylidae]], the river limpets.  They have a world-wide distribution.
 ==Species within the genus ''Gundlachia''==
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 ==References==
 * {{ITIS|ID=660322|taxon=''Ozius''}}
-* [[Arthur William Baden Powell|Powell A W B]], ''New Zealand Mollusca'', [[HarperCollins|William Collins Publishers Ltd]], Auckland, New Zealand [[1979]] ISBN 0-00-216906-1
+* [[Arthur William Baden Powell|Powell A. W. B.]], ''New Zealand Mollusca'', [[HarperCollins|William Collins Publishers Ltd]], Auckland, New Zealand [[1979]] ISBN 0-00-216906-1
 * [http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?pid=S0034-77442001000300004&script=sci_arttext Scielo]
 * [http://www.bioline.org.br/request?oc04095 Bioline]