''Bulinus truncatus'' is a
species of air-breathing
freshwater snail
Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs ...
with a sinistral shell, an
aquatic pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the subfamily Bulininae of the
family Bulinidae, the
ram's horn snails and the like.
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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]
;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.
* in
Ferlo
The Ferlo Desert, also known as the Ferio Desert, is a desert in northern-central Senegal. It is inhabited by the Serer and the Fulani.
Geography and landscape
The Ferlo Desert occupies an area of some 70,000 km2, over one-third of the coun ...
Valley, Western Africa:
Senegal[ Sarr A., Kinzelbach R. & Diouf M. (2011, in press). "Diversité spécifique et écologie des mollusques continenatux de la basse vallée du Ferlo (Sénégal). pecific diversity and ecology of continental molluscs from the Lower Ferlo Valley (Senegal). ''MalaCo'' 7: 8 pp]
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.
* in
El Ejido (province of
Almeria, southern
Andalusia), lagoon of Villena (
province of Alicante
Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the Valencian Community. It is the second most populated Valencian province. Likewise, the second and third biggest cities in the Valencian Community (Alica ...
, northern
Catalonia,
Spain
* Continental France and Corsica
* Continental Greece and Crete
[Schütt, H., 1987. Bulinus truncatus auf Kreta. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Zoologie, 74: 243–245.]
* Italy (Sardinia and Sicily)
[Giusti, F. Manganelli, G. & Schembri, P. J., 1995. The non–marine molluscs of the Maltese Islands. Monografie XV. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino.]
* Portugal
* Malta
[
* Middle East (Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and Yemen).
]
Parasites
This species is an intermediate host
In biology and medicine, a host is a larger organism that harbours a smaller organism; whether a parasitic, a mutualistic, or a commensalist ''guest'' (symbiont). The guest is typically provided with nourishment and shelter. Examples include a ...
for '' Schistosoma haematobium'' and '' Paramphistomum cervi'' and ''Paramphistomum microbothrium
''Paramphistomum'' is a genus of parasitic flatworms belonging to the digenetic trematodes. It includes flukes which are mostly parasitising livestock ruminants, as well as some wild mammals. They are responsible for the serious disease called ...
''.
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.
Further reading
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External links
Die Familie der Limnaeiden enthaltend die Genera Planorbis, Limnaeus, Physa und Amphipeplea. In Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. In: Küster, H. C.; Kobelt, W., Weinkauff, H. C., eds. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz, Neue Folgen. Ersten Bandes, siebenzehnte Abtheilung (A). (1) 17a (270): 29-34, 35a, 36a (1878); (1) 17a (319): 63-94, pls. 11-15, 17 (1882); (1) 17a (320): 95-110, pls. 18-22 (1883); (1) 17a (328): 111-150, pls. 23-27 (1884); (1) 17a (331): 151-182, pls. 28-33 (1884); (1) 17a (332): 183-222, pls. 34-39 (1884); (1) 17a (334): 223-278, pls. 40-44 (1885); (1) 17a (336): 279-310, pls. 45-50 (1885); (1) 17a (338): 311-358, pls. 51-55 (1886); (1) 17a (339): 359-430 (1886). Nürnberg (Bauer & Raspe)
Dautzenberg, Ph. (1890). Récoltes malacologiques de M. le Capitaine Em. Dorr dans le Haut-Sénégal et le Soudan Français de 1886 à 1889. Mem. Soc. Zool. France III: 125-135, plate I
Bourguignat, J.-R. (1888). Iconographie malacologique des animaux mollusques fluviatiles du lac Tanganika. 1-82, pls 1-35. Corbeil (Crété)
Germain, L. (1907). Contributions à la faune malacologique de l'Afrique équatoriale. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 13(1): 64-68
Jickeli, C. F. (1874). Fauna der Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken Nord-Ost-Afrika's (Die erste Abtheilung der wissenschaftlichen Resultate seiner Reise mit einschliessend). Nova Acta der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher. 37 (1): 1-352, 11 plates. Halle
Fischer, P. (1891). Diagnoses d'espèces nouvelles recueillies, à l'état subfossile, dans le Sahara, près d'El-Goléah. Journal de Conchyliologie. 38(4): 374-376.
Glöer, P. & Pešić, V. (2012). The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species. ZooKeys. 219: 11-61. Sofia
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