''Parafossarulus striatulus'' is a
species of
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
gills and an
operculum, an
aquatic prosobranch 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
family Bithyniidae
Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Bithyniidae Gray, 1857. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2014). Parafossarulus striatulus (Benson, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758824 on 2014-11-19]
''Parafossarulus striatulus'' is the
type species of the genus ''Parafossarulus''.
Distribution
This species occurs in:
* northern
Vietnam,
*
Shandong Province
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizatio ...
,
Hunan province
Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi t ...
in China.
Parasites
''Parafossarulus striatulus'' is a host for:
* ''
Clonorchis sinensis
''Clonorchis sinensis'', the Chinese liver fluke, is a liver fluke belonging to the class Trematoda, phylum Platyhelminthes. It infects fish-eating mammals, including humans. In humans, it infects the common bile duct and gall bladder, feeding on ...
''
* ''
Metorchis orientalis''
* ''
Echinochasmus japonicus''
[ Chen Y., Lin J. & Fang Y. (1990). " cological studies on the cercariae of ''Echinochasmus japonicus''. ''Zhongguo Ji Sheng Chong Xue Yu Ji Sheng Chong Bing Za Zhi'' 8(1): 26-28. .]
''Parafossarulus striatulus'' serves as the first intermediate host for trematode ''
Holostephanus'' sp. 2 and for
Pleurogenidae gen. sp. 2.
[Besprozvannykh V. V., Ngo H. D., Ha N. V., Hung N. M., Rozhkovan K. V. & Ermolenko A. V. (2013). "Descriptions of digenean parasites from three snail species, ''Bithynia fuchsiana'' (Morelet), ''Parafossarulus striatulus'' Benson and ''Melanoides tuberculata'' Müller, in North Vietnam". '' Helminthologia'' 50(3): 190-204]
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References
External links
* Laidlaw F. F. (). "A note on the occurrence of ''Parafossarulus striatulus'' (Bens.) in the Malya Peninsula".
PDF p. 133.
* Zhao W. H., Wang H. J., Wang H. Z. & Liu X. Q. (2009). "
onversion methods of freshwater snail tissue dry mass and ash free dry mass. ''Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao'' 20(6): 1452-1458. .
Bithyniidae
Gastropods described in 1842
Taxa named by William Henry Benson
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