Biology:Helisoma

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Helisoma is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Helisoma snails are an intermediate host of Megalodiscus temperatus.[1]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Helisoma:

  • Helisoma anceps (Menke, 1830)
  • Helisoma brevispira (Yen, 1946)
  • Helisoma dongdawusuensis (G.-X. Zhu, 1976)
  • Helisoma eucosmium (Bartsch, 1908)
  • Helisoma eyerdami Clench & Aguayo, 1932
  • Helisoma kettlemanensis Pilsbry, 1934
  • Helisoma lincki (Schütze, 1907)
  • Helisoma llanerensis (K. van W. Palmer, 1945)
  • Helisoma malheurense (J. Henderson & Rodeck, 1934)
  • Helisoma marshalli (Arnold, 1909)
  • Helisoma minus (J. G. Cooper, 1870)
  • Helisoma newberryi (I. Lea, 1858)
  • Helisoma parallelum A. B. Leonard & Franzen, 1944
  • Helisoma paritis X.-H. Yu, 1987
  • Helisoma peruvianum (Broderip, 1832)
  • Helisoma ringentis X.-H. Yu, 1987
  • Helisoma sanctaeclarae (Hannibal, 1909)
  • Helisoma sheyangensis H.-J. Wang, 1977
  • Helisoma shotwelli (D. W. Taylor, 1963)
  • Helisoma triangulatum Pierce, 2001

References

  1. Bolek, M.G.; Janovy, J. (2008). "Alternative life cycle strategies of Megalodiscus temperatus in tadpoles and metamorphosed anurans". Parasite 15 (3): 396–401. doi:10.1051/parasite/2008153396. ISSN 1252-607X. PMID 18814713.  open access

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