Bulinus truncatus

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Bulinus truncatus
Bulinus truncatus.jpg
A lateral view of the shell of Bulinus truncatus truncatus
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Bulinus
Species:
B. truncatus
Binomial name
Bulinus truncatus
(Audouin, 1827)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Physa truncata Audouin, 1827
  • Physa contorta Michaud, 1829
  • Bulinus rohlfsi Clessin

Bulinus truncatus is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Distribution[]

Distribution of Bulinus truncatus include:

Parasites[]

This species is an intermediate host for Schistosoma haematobium and Paramphistomum cervi and .[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ "Synonyms of Physa truncata". AnimalBase, accessed 13 June 2011.
  2. ^ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
  3. ^ Brown, D., 1980. Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis Ltd., London
  4. ^ (in French) Sarr A., Kinzelbach R. & Diouf M. (2011, in press). "Diversité spécifique et écologie des mollusques continenatux de la basse vallée du Ferlo (Sénégal). [Specific diversity and ecology of continental molluscs from the Lower Ferlo Valley (Senegal)]". MalaCo 7: 8 pp. PDF Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ^ Martínez-Ortí A., Bargues M. D. & Mas-Coma S. (2015). "Dos nuevas localizaciones para España de Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827) (Gastropoda, Planorbidae), hospedador intermediario de Schistosomiasis urinaria". Arxius de Miscellània Zoològica 13: 25-31. PDF.
  6. ^ Germain, L., 1931. Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. Faune de France 22(2): 479–897.
  7. ^ Larambergue,M. 1939;Étude de l’autofécondation chez lês gasterópodes pulmonés recherches sur l’aphallie et la fécundation chez Bulinus (Isidora) contortus Michaud. Bulletin Biologique de la France et de la Belgique, 73(1–2): 19–231
  8. ^ Schütt, H., 1987. Bulinus truncatus auf Kreta. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Zoologie, 74: 243–245.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Giusti, F. Manganelli, G. & Schembri, P. J., 1995. The non–marine molluscs of the Maltese Islands. Monografie XV. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino.

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