Heleobia castellanosae

Heleobia castellanosae is a species of small freshwater snail, an operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Cochliopidae.

Heleobia castellanosae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Truncatelloidea
Family:
Cochliopidae
Subfamily:
Semisalsinae
Genus:
Heleobia
Species:
H. castellanosae
Binomial name
Heleobia castellanosae
(Gaillard, 1974)
Synonyms
  • Littoridina castellanosae Gaillard, 1974

The specific name castellanosae is in honour of Argentinian malacologist Zulma Judith Ageitos de Castellanos.

Distribution

Argentina.[1]

Ecology

Parasites of Heleobia castellanosae include trematodes Lobatostoma jungwirthi and Lobatostoma pacificum.[2]

References
  1. Rumi A., Gregoric D. E. G., Núñez V. & Darrigran G. A. (2008). "Malacología Latinoamericana. Moluscos de agua dulce de Argentina". Revista de Biología Tropical 56(1): 77-111. HTM.
  2. Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.


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