- Oncomelania nosophora
Taxobox
name = "Oncomelania nosophora"
status = NE
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Gastropoda
ordo =Sorbeoconcha
familia =Pomatiopsidae
genus = "Oncomelania "
species = "O. nosophora"
binomial = "Oncomelania nosophora"
binomial_authority = Robson, 1915"Oncomelania nosophora" is a
species of very smalltropical freshwatersnail , an aquaticgastropod mollusk which is distantly related to the marine periwinkle, and more closely related to the small marine snails of the familyRissoidae .This freshwater snail is significant medically, because it is an important vector of
parasitic infection in the tropics and sub-tropics. It can serve as vectors for a serious human disease: theschistosomiasis blood fluke parasite.
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