Morphological, anatomical and phylogenetic analyses performed by Bargues et al. (2011)[4] confirmed that this species belong to the Galba/Fossaria group.

[4] According to the 2012 IUCN Red List,[1] the native distribution of Galba schirazensis includes: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Russian Federation.

[1] The distribution of this species includes: Galba schirazensis was introduced to Central and South America from the Old World:[6] The type locality is Shiraz, Iran.

[4] The whorls are somewhat inflated, slightly shouldered, with silky and longitudinally striated surface and separated by a deep, well-marked suture, increasing rather slowly in diameter.

[4] The last or body whorl is almost ¾ times as high as the shell height, presenting a slight twisting trend along its basal part visible in the biggest shells when viewed dorsally, and which is due to the enlargement of the basal lip of the peristome (in the way of Pseudosuccinea columella).

[4] The black pigmentation of the hypopeplear region of the mantle roof gave a dark appearance to the shell of living specimens by transparency.

[4] This dark appearance did not depend on the characteristics of the natural habitat, as it was maintained across the different laboratory-reared snail generations (quite the opposite of what happens with several darkish populations of other lymnaeid species under experimental conditions).

[4][8] However, results published in 2017 found that Galba schirazensis was harbouring rediae of Fasciola hepatica in Ecuador and could be an intermediate host.

[7] This hitherto overlooked species has been distorting results of fasciolid specificity/susceptibility analyses as well as the geographical distribution of the disease.

[4] Galba schirazensis offers an outstanding laboratory model for studies on genomics and proteomics about susceptibility/resistance in Fasciola hepatica/lymnaeid interaction.