Radix rubiginosa

Radix rubiginosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:	Lymnaeoidea
Family:	Lymnaeidae
Subfamily:
Genus:	Radix
Species:	R. rubiginosa
Binomial name
	Radix rubiginosa; (Michelin, 1831)
Synonyms
	Lymnaea rubiginosa Michelin, 1831; Lymnaea auricularia rubiginosa; Radix auricularia rubiginosa;

Radix rubiginosa is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

This species is sometimes treated as a subspecies of Radix auricularia.

Distribution[]

This species occurs in its native range in:

It occurs as an introduced "hothouse alien" in:

Apertural view of a shell of Radix rubiginosa.

The shape of the shell is elongated and cylindrical.^[1] The shell has 5 whorls.^[1]

The aperture is moderately expanded. The width of the aperture is 4–5 mm. The height of the aperture is 7–11 mm.^[1]

The width of the shell is 5–8 mm. The height of the shell is 11–20 mm.^[1]

This species inhabits small canals.^[1]

Parasites of Radix rubiginosa include:

Radix rubiginosa is the first intermediate host for Hypoderaeum conoideum^[2]
Fasciola gigantica^[3]
and ^[4]
Pleurolophocercous cercariae (Heterophyidae) were recorded from Radix rubiginosa in China.^[5]

This species is sold in the ornamental pet trade as an item for freshwater aquaria.^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Dung B. T., Doanh P. N., The D. T., Loan H. T., Losson B. & Caron Y. (2013). "Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Lymnaeid Snails and Their Potential Role in Transmission of Fasciola spp. in Vietnam". 51(6): 657-662. doi:10.3347/kjp.2013.51.6.657.
^ Chai J.-Y., Shin E.-H., Lee S.-H. & Rim H.-J. (2009). "Foodborne Intestinal Flukes in Southeast Asia". 47(Suppl): S69–S102. doi:10.3347/kjp.2009.47.S.S69.
^ Robinson M. W. & Dalton J. P. (2009). "Zoonotic helminth infections with particular emphasis on fasciolosis and other trematodiases". Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364(1530): 2763-2776. doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0089.
^ Toguebaye B. S.,Quilichini Y., Diagne P. M. & Marchand B. (2014). "Ultrastructure and development of Nosema podocotyloidis n. sp. (Microsporidia), a hyperparasite of Podocotyloides magnatestis (Trematoda), a parasite of Parapristipoma octolineatum (Teleostei)". Parasite 21: 44. doi:10.1051/parasite/2014044.
^ Chontananarth T. & Wongsawad C. (2013). "Epidemiology of cercarial stage of trematodes in freshwater snails from Chiang Mai province, Thailand". 3(3): 237-243. doi:10.1016/S2221-1691(13)60058-1.
^ Ng, T. H., Tan, S. K., Wong, W. H., Meier, R., Chan, S. Y., Tan, H. H., & Yeo, D. C. (2016). "Molluscs for sale: assessment of freshwater gastropods and bivalves in the ornamental pet trade". PLoS ONE 11(8): e0161130. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161130

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