Bithynia fuchsiana

Bithynia fuchsiana is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

Bithynia fuchsiana
Live Bithynia fuchsiana

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Bithynia
Species:
B. fuchsiana
Binomial name
Bithynia fuchsiana
(Möllendorff, 1888)

Distribution

Distribution of this species includes:

Ecology

Bithynia fuchsiana inhabits lentic habitats such as lakes, rice fields, ponds and others.[1]

Bithynia fuchsiana serves as the first intermediate host for the trematode Clonorchis sinensis.[2]

gollark: It's not like it'll give dragons horrible genetic defects.
gollark: *longingly stares at raffle page*
gollark: What thing?
gollark: At least it's bringing times down.
gollark: Why would they abandon a second generation silver egg, I wonder.

References

  1. Madhyastha A. (2012). "Bithynia fuchsiana". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 December 2012.
  2. World Health Organization (1995). Control of Foodborne Trematode Infection. WHO Technical Report Series. 849. PDF part 1, PDF part 2. page 125.
  3. Dung, Bui Thi; Madsen, Henry; The, Dang Tat (2010). "Distribution of freshwater snails in family-based VAC ponds and associated waterbodies with special reference to intermediate hosts of fish-borne zoonotic trematodes in Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam". Acta Tropica. 116 (1): 15–23. doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.04.016. PMID 20457118..


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