Galba neotropica

Galba neotropica is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails. This species was described as Lymnaea neotropica in 2007. However, it belongs to the Galba/Fossaria group, therefore this species is named Galba neotropica. cf. Galba neotropica is the vector typically responsible for fascioliasis (liver fluke) livestock infection. Galba neotropica was originally described from Lima, Peru and surroundings; it appears to be a species restricted to South America, but with a very broad geographical distribution from Argentina in the Southern Cone north to Venezuela.