Bulinus

Taxobox | name = "Bulinus"

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image_caption = "Bulinus wrighti"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Planorbidae
subfamilia = Bulininae
genus = "Bulinus"
genus_authority = Müller, 1781

"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 distribution

These snails are widespread in Africa and the Middle East. [Aslak Jørgensen, Louise V. Gersdorff Jørgensen, Thomas K. Kristensen, Henry Madsen, J. Russell Stothard (2007) [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00298.x 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]

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"
* ...

References

External links

* http://memorias.ioc.fiocruz.br/93sup1/15cob.html