Bulinus truncatus

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.

Bulinus truncatus
A lateral view of the shell of Bulinus truncatus truncatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
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Subfamily:
Bulininae
Tribe:
Bulinini
Genus:
Species:
B. truncatus
Binomial name
Bulinus truncatus
(Audouin, 1827)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Physa truncata Audouin, 1827
  • Physa contorta Michaud, 1829
  • Bulinus rohlfsi Clessin

Distribution

Distribution of Bulinus truncatus include:

Parasites

This species is an intermediate host for Schistosoma haematobium and Paramphistomum cervi and Paramphistomum microbothrium.

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. 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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