Freshwater snails of the genus Austropeplea were found on rice fields in Spain. It is the first record of this genus in Europe, very distant from all previously known localities of this taxon. By comparison of sequence data of the nuclear marker ITS-2 two specimens analysed fell into one cluster with GenBank sequences front Austropeplea viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) from Thailand and Australia, a Radix sp. sequence (Genbank) from Turkey and own sequences from Orientogalba specimens from China and Mongolia. Morphologically, the newly found snails correspond to specimens of A. viridis from Central Asia as well as to the syntypes of Lymnaea viridis collected in Guam. This finding confirms the high potential of aquatic pulmonale snails as successful transcontinental invaders.