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Bulinus
Introduction
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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.
Range of distriution
Range of distriution
These snails are widespread in Africa and the Middle East.[1]
List of species
List of species
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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References
References
- ↑ Aslak Jørgensen, Louise V. Gersdorff Jørgensen, Thomas K. Kristensen, Henry Madsen, J. Russell Stothard (2007) Molecular phylogenetic investigations of Bulinus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Lake Malawi with comments on the topological incongruence between DNA loci. – Zoologica Scripta 36 (6), 577–585. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00298.x