Biology:Bulinus truncatus

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Bulinus truncatus
Bulinus truncatus.jpg
A lateral view of the shell of Bulinus truncatus truncatus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Bulinus
Species:
B. truncatus
Binomial name
Bulinus truncatus
(Audouin, 1827)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Bulinus (Bulinus) truncatus (Audoin, 1827) (new combination)
  • Bulinus (Isidora) dybowskii P. Fischer, 1891· accepted, alternate representation
  • Bulinus (Isidora) truncatus (Audouin, 1827)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Bulinus (Isidora) truncatus rohlfsi (Clessin, 1886) (junior synonym)
  • Bulinus (Isidora) truncatus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Bulinus dybowskii P. Fischer, 1891
  • Bulinus guernei (Dautzenberg, 1890) (junior synonym)
  • Bulinus hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1831) (junior synonym)
  • Bulinus rohlfsi (Clessin, 1886)
  • Bulinus sericinus (Jickeli, 1874) (a junior synonym)
  • Bullinus (Isidora) mussolinii Piersanti, 1940 (a junior synonym)
  • Isidora guernei Dautzenberg, 1890 (junior synonym)
  • Isidora hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1831
  • Isidora sericina Jickeli, 1874 (a junior synonym)
  • Physa (Isidora) vaneyi Germain, 1907
  • Physa coulboisi Bourguignat, 1888 (junior synonym)
  • Physa mutandaensis Preston, 1913 (junior synonym)
  • Physa rohlfsi Clessin, 1886 (a junior synonym)
  • Physa truncata 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.[citation needed]

References

  1. ↑ "Synonyms of Physa truncata". AnimalBase, accessed 13 June 2011.
  2. ↑ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN:0-7484-0026-5.
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ Brown, D., 1980. Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis Ltd., London
  5. ↑ (in French) Sarr A., Kinzelbach R. & Diouf M. (2011, in press). "Diversité spécifique et écologie des mollusques continenatux de la basse vallée du Ferlo (Sénégal). [Specific diversity and ecology of continental molluscs from the Lower Ferlo Valley (Senegal)]". MalaCo 7: 8 pp. PDF .
  6. ↑ Martínez-Ortí A., Bargues M. D. & Mas-Coma S. (2015). "Dos nuevas localizaciones para España de Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827) (Gastropoda, Planorbidae), hospedador intermediario de Schistosomiasis urinaria". Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica 13: 25-31. PDF.
  7. ↑ Germain, L., 1931. Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. Faune de France 22(2): 479–897.
  8. ↑ Larambergue,M. 1939;Étude de l’autofécondation chez lês gasterópodes pulmonés recherches sur l’aphallie et la fécundation chez Bulinus (Isidora) contortus Michaud. Bulletin Biologique de la France et de la Belgique, 73(1–2): 19–231
  9. ↑ Schütt, H., 1987. Bulinus truncatus auf Kreta. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Zoologie, 74: 243–245.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Giusti, F. Manganelli, G. & Schembri, P. J., 1995. The non–marine molluscs of the Maltese Islands. Monografie XV. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino.
  • 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

  • Celie, P. H. N.; Klaassen, R. V.; Van Rossum-Fikkert, S. E.; Van Elk, R.; Van Nierop, P.; Smit, A. B.; Sixma, T. K. (2005). "Crystal Structure of Acetylcholine-binding Protein from Bulinus truncatus Reveals the Conserved Structural Scaffold and Sites of Variation in Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors". Journal of Biological Chemistry 280 (28): 26457–26466. doi:10.1074/jbc.M414476200. PMID 15899893. 
  • Mouahid, A.; Moné, H.; Chaib, A.; Théron, A. (1991). "Cercarial shedding patterns of Schistosoma bovis and S. Haematobium from single and mixed infections of Bulinus truncatus". Journal of Helminthology 65 (1): 8–14. doi:10.1017/S0022149X00010373. PMID 2050991. 
  • Rollinson, D.; De Clercq, D.; Sacko, M.; Traoré, M.; Sene, M.; Southgate, V. R.; Vercruysse, J. (1997). "Observations on compatibility between Bulinus truncatus and Schistosoma haematobium in the Senegal River Basin". Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 91 (4): 371–378. doi:10.1080/00034989760996. PMID 9290844. .

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q4996462 entry



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