Neotricula aperta

Neotricula aperta
Neotricula aperta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily: Triculinae
Tribe: Pachydrobiini
Genus: Neotricula
Species: N. aperta
Binomial name
Neotricula aperta
(Temcharoen, 1971)
Synonyms

Lithoglyphopsis aperta

Neotricula aperta is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.

This species serves as an intermediate host for Schistosoma mekongi.[1]

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Distribution

This species occurs:

  • Along the Mekong River[2] in Cambodia.
  • The upper Xe Kong river valley
  • Laos

References

  1. ^ Attwood S. W., Fatih F. A. & Upatham E. S. (2008). "DNA-Sequence Variation Among Schistosoma mekongi Populations and Related Taxa; Phylogeography and the Current Distribution of Asian Schistosomiasis". PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2(3): e200. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000200.
  2. ^ http://www.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2009/RebeccaHebner_SchistoMekongi/RebeccaHebner_SchistoMekongi.htm accessed 10 July 2009

Further reading

  • Attwood S. W., Upatham E. S. & Southgate V. R. (2001). "The detection of Schistosoma mekongi infections in a natural population of Neotricula aperta at Khong Island, Laos, and the control of Mekong schistosomiasis". Journal of Molluscan Studies 67(3): 400-405. doi:10.1093/mollus/67.3.400.

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