Bulinus truncatus (Audouin 1827)

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 in Ferlo Valley, Western Africa: Senegal^[5]
• As of 2014 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.

References

• 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.

Bulinus truncatus is een slakkensoort uit de familie van de Planorbidae.^[1] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1827 door Audouin.

블리누스 트룬카투스(Bulinus truncatus)는 공기호흡을 하는 민물달팽이다. 숫양의 뿔과 닮은 껍질을 지니고있다. 서부아프리카 세네갈에 서식한다.

기생충

Schistosoma haematobium, Paramphistomum cervi, Paramphistomum의 중간숙주이다.

각주