Biology:Campeloma decisum
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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| A shell and an operculum of Campeloma decisum | |
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| Species: | C. decisum
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| Campeloma decisum (Say, 1817)
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Campeloma decisum, common name the pointed campeloma, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.
Description
C. decisum can be found in freshwater ecosystems throughout eastern North America. The species is capable of both sexual reproduction and parthenogenesis.[1] They typically reproduce when they're a year old, and live approximately three years. The species is sexually dimorphic.[2]
Ecology
Parasites of Campeloma decisum include trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.[3]
References
- ↑ Johnson, Steven G (1992). "Spontaneous and hybrid origins of parthenogenesis in Campeloma decisum (freshwater prosobranch snail)". Heredity (Springer Science and Business Media LLC) 68 (3): 253–261. doi:10.1038/hdy.1992.38. ISSN 0018-067X.
- ↑ Brown, Kenneth M.; Varza, Dennis; Richardson, Terry D. (1989). "Life Histories and Population Dynamics of Two Subtropical Snails (Prosobranchia:Viviparidae)". Journal of the North American Benthological Society ([University of Chicago Press, Society for Freshwater Science]) 8 (3): 222–228. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1467325. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
- ↑ Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World" (in en). Zootaxa 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098. http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3918.3.2.
Wikidata ☰ Q3175037 entry
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