n :  a widely distributed genus of freshwater snails of the family Lymnaeidae that include important Old World hosts of a liver fluke of the genus Fasciola (F. hepatica) and that are sometimes considered indistinguishable from the genus Lymnaea - compare FOSSARIA  .
 
   
 
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