Bulinus

Bulinus is a genus of small tropical fresh-water snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks.

This genus is medically important because several species of Bulinus function as intermediate hosts for the schistosomiasis blood fluke.

These snails are widespread in Africa and the Middle East.^[1]

The genus includes 37 species:

• Bulinus africanus
• Bulinus bavayi
• Bulinus camerunensis
• Bulinus cernicus
• Bulinus crystallinus
• Bulinus forskalii
• Bulinus globosus
• Bulinus liratus
• Bulinus nasutus
• Bulinus nyassanus
• Bulinus obtusispira
• Bulinus scalaris
• Bulinus senegalensis
• Bulinus transversalis
• Bulinus tropicus
• Bulinus truncatus
• Bulinus ugandae
• Bulinus umbilicatus
• Bulinus wrighti
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