Stagnicola palustris is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.Subspecies† Stagnicola palustris antilibanensis (Blanckenhorn, 1897) Stagnicola palustris palustris (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Lymnaeidae, common name the pond snails, is a taxonomic family of small to large air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks, that belong to the clade Hygrophila.