Koreoleptoxis amurensis

Koreoleptoxis amurensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae.

Koreoleptoxis amurensis
Koreoleptoxis amurensis shell
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
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Genus:
Koreoleptoxis
Species:
K. amurensis
Binomial name
Koreoleptoxis amurensis
(Gerstfeldt, 1859)[2]
Synonyms[3][4]

Melania amurensis Gerstfeldt, 1859
Juga amurensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859) “Parajuga” amurensis
Semisulcospira amurensis
Semisulcospira cancellata sensu Shadin, 1952, part. non Benson, 1833

Taxonomy

Strong et al. (2009)[5] and Kantor et al. (2010) classified this species in the genus "Parajuga" Prozorova et Starobogatov, 2003; however Parajuga is not available name.[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in rivers of the Amur River basin.[4]

The type locality is "im Amur, im mittleren Laufe und einem Theile des unteren dieses Stromes".[4]

Ecology

Koreoleptoxis amurensis serves as the first intermediate host for Clonorchis sinensis in China[6] and as the first intermediate host of Paragonimus westermani.[7]

References

  1. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2017-1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 07 July 2017.
  2. (in German) Gerstfeldt G. (1859). "Ueber Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken Sibiriens und Amur-Gebietes". Mémoires des Savants étrangers 9: 507-548. pages 512-514, figs. 14-24.
  3. Bouchet, P. (2017). Koreoleptoxis amurensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=999800 on 2017-07-07
  4. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.
  5. Strong E. & Köhler F. (2009). "Morphological and molecular analysis of "Melania" jacqueti Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906: from anonymous orphan to critical basal offshoot of the Semisulcospiridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea)". Zoologica Scripta 38(5): 483-502. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00385.x
  6. Tang, Ze-Li; Huang, Yan; Yu, Xin-Bing (2016-07-06). "Current status and perspectives of Clonorchis sinensis and clonorchiasis: epidemiology, pathogenesis, omics, prevention and control". Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 5 (1): 71. doi:10.1186/s40249-016-0166-1. ISSN 2049-9957. PMC 4933995. PMID 27384714.
  7. World Health Organization (1995). Control of Foodborne Trematode Infection. WHO Technical Report Series. 849. PDF part 1, PDF part 2. page 125-126.


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