Bulinus truncatus | |
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A lateral view of the shell of Bulinus truncatus truncatus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Superorder: | Hygrophila |
Family: | Planorbidae |
Genus: | Bulinus |
Species: | B. truncatus
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Binomial name | |
Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)
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Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Bulinus truncatus is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulininae of the family Bulinidae, the ram's horn snails and the like.[3]
- Subspecies
- Bulinus truncatus contortus (Michaud, 1829) (synonym: Physa contorta Michaud, 1829 )
- Bulinus truncatus rivularis (Philippi, 1836)
- Bulinus truncatus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)
Distribution
Distribution of Bulinus truncatus include:
- Africa: Egypt, Morocco Northern Sahara, D.R. Congo, Malawi and Ethiopia.[4]
- As of 2011[update] in Ferlo Valley, Western Africa: Senegal[5]
- As of 2014[update] in El Ejido (province of Almeria, southern Andalusia), lagoon of Villena (province of Alicante, northern Catalonia, Spain[6]
- Continental France and Corsica [7][8]
- Continental Greece and Crete[9]
- Italy (Sardinia and Sicily)[10]
- Portugal
- Malta[10]
- Middle East (Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and Yemen).
Parasites
This species is an intermediate host for Schistosoma haematobium and Paramphistomum cervi and Paramphistomum microbothrium.[citation needed]
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.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716338 on 2022-01-14
- ^ 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 Miscel·lània 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.
- ^ a b Giusti, F. Manganelli, G. & Schembri, P. J., 1995. The non–marine molluscs of the Maltese Islands. Monografie XV. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino.
- Audouin, V. (1828). Explication sommaire des planches de Mollusques de l'Egypte et de la Syrie publiées par J.C. Savigny. in: Description de l'Egypte ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, publié par les ordres de sa majesté l'empereur Napoléon le grand. 2ème édition, dédiée au roi. Histoire Naturelle, Animaux invertébrés 22: 117–212. Paris: Panckouke.
- Preston, H.B. (1913). New species and varieties of terrestrial and fluviatile shells from Equatorial Africa. Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 3 (1): 47–62, 212, pl. 4–6. Bruxelles
- Neubert, E. (1998). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial and freshwater molluscs of the Arabian Peninsula with descriptions of new species. Fauna of Arabia. 17: 333–461.
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. S2CID 42368420.
- 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..
External links
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