''Bulinus truncatus'' is a
species
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of air-breathing
freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an
aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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in the subfamily Bulininae of the
family
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Bulinidae
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, the
ram
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'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 Valley, Western Africa:
Senegal
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[ 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
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(province of
Almeria, southern
Andalusia
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), lagoon of Villena (
province of Alicante, northern
Catalonia
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,
Spain
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* 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
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* Middle East (Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, ]Jordan
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, Israel
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and Yemen).
Parasites
This species is an intermediate host for ''Schistosoma haematobium
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'' and ''Paramphistomum cervi
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'' 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.
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
"Species summary for ''Bulinus truncatus''"
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Bulinus
Gastropods described in 1827
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