Pseudosuccinea columella

Taxobox
name = "Pseudosuccinea columella"


image_width = 225px
status = NE
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Lymnaeidae
genus = "Pseudosuccinea"
species = "P. columella"
binomial = "Pseudosuccinea columella"
binomial_authority = (Say, 1817)

"Pseudosuccinea columella", common name the American ribbed fluke snail, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

This snail is an intermediate host for "Fasciola hepatica", the liver fluke, a parasite of livestock, especially sheep.

Distribution

"P. columella" is native to North America. However, this snail has been introduced to Australia and Europe. [Remigio, E.A., 2002. Molecular phylogenetic relationships in the aquatic snail genus Lymnaea, the intermediate host of the causative agent of fascioliasis: insights from broader taxon sampling. Parasitol Res. 88, 687-96.]
* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 22 July 2007.]
* Czech Republic - non-indigenous synantrop
* ...

Parasites

In North America, "P. columella" is major intermediate host of "Fasciola hepatica". [Torgerson, P, Claxton J., 1999. Epidemiology and Control. In: Dalton JP (ed.) Fasciolosis. CAB International, Wallingford, pp 113–149.] The species also serve as a snail host for "Fascioloides magna". [Krull, W.H., 1933. New snail hosts for "Fasciola magna" (Bassi, 1875) Stiles, 1894. J Parasitol. 20, 107-108.]

References

* [http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/name_s/b_3491.htm]

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