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.
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| Subfamily: | Bulininae |
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| Species: | B. truncatus |
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| Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827) | |
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Distribution
Distribution of Bulinus truncatus include:
- Africa: Egypt, Marocco Northern Sáhara, D.R. Congo, Malawi and Ethiopía.[3]
- As of 2011 in Ferlo Valley, Western Africa: Senegal[4]
- As of 2014 in El Ejido (province of Almeria, southern Andalusia), lagoon of Villena (province of Alicante, northern Catalonia, Spain[5]
- continental France and Corsica [6][7]
- continental Greece and Crete[8]
- Italy (Sardinia and Sicily)[9]
- Portugal
- Malta[9]
- Middle East (Iran, Irak and Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and Yemen).
Parasites
This species is an intermediate host for Schistosoma haematobium and Paramphistomum cervi and Paramphistomum microbothrium.
References
- "Synonyms of Physa truncata". AnimalBase, accessed 13 June 2011.
- Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
- Brown, D., 1980. Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis Ltd., London
- (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.
- 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.
- Germain, L., 1931. Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. Faune de France 22(2): 479–897.
- 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
- Schütt, H., 1987. Bulinus truncatus auf Kreta. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Zoologie, 74: 243–245.
- Giusti, F. Manganelli, G. & Schembri, P. J., 1995. The non–marine molluscs of the Maltese Islands. Monografie XV. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino.
Further reading
- Celie, P. H. N.; Klaassen, R. V.; Van Rossum-Fikkert, S. E.; Van Elk, R.; Van Nierop, P.; Smit, A. B.; Sixma, T. K. (2005). "Crystal Structure of Acetylcholine-binding Protein from Bulinus truncatus Reveals the Conserved Structural Scaffold and Sites of Variation in Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280 (28): 26457–26466. doi:10.1074/jbc.M414476200. PMID 15899893.
- Mouahid, A.; Moné, H.; Chaib, A.; Théron, A. (1991). "Cercarial shedding patterns of Schistosoma bovis and S. Haematobium from single and mixed infections of Bulinus truncatus". Journal of Helminthology. 65 (1): 8–14. doi:10.1017/S0022149X00010373. PMID 2050991.
- Rollinson, D.; De Clercq, D.; Sacko, M.; Traoré, M.; Sene, M.; Southgate, V. R.; Vercruysse, J. (1997). "Observations on compatibility between Bulinus truncatus and Schistosoma haematobium in the Senegal River Basin". Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. 91 (4): 371–378. doi:10.1080/00034989760996. PMID 9290844..
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