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title: "Great Pond Snail"
description: "Lymnaea stagnalis — Other animals. Lymnaea stagnalis, better known as the great pond snail, is a species of large air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/great-pond-snail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Great Pond Snail

> Lymnaea stagnalis — Other animals. Lymnaea stagnalis, better known as the great pond snail, is a species of large air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae.

- Scientific name: *Lymnaea stagnalis*
- Category: `other` (Other animals)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lakes & rivers)
- iNaturalist observations: 13546
- Wikidata: [Q911251](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q911251)
- iNaturalist taxon: [61770](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61770)

## Names

- en: Great Pond Snail
- de: Spitzschlammschnecke
- es: Caracol de estanque
- fr: Grande limnée
- nl: Poelslak
- pl: Błotniarka stawowa

## Countries with the most observations

RU (2099), DE (1670), GB (1412), PL (779), UA (674), DK (569), FR (509), AT (469), CZ (309), NL (304), LT (242), FI (224)

## Summary

Lymnaea stagnalis, better known as the great pond snail, is a species of large air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae. The great pond snail is a model organism to study parasitology, neurology, embryonal development and genetic regulation.
Limnaea stagnalis var. baltica Lindström, 1868: synonym of Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymnaea_stagnalis

## Photo

![Great Pond Snail](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/great-pond-snail/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen James McWilliam · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/183473943

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/great-pond-snail?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).