• Lymnaea is a genus of small to large-sized air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lymnaeidae ( of the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

• Some species are used in aquaculture under the name Melantho snails.

• Numerous Lymnaea species serve as intermediate hosts for trematodes.

• Lymnaea is the type genus of the family Lymnaeidae.