Bellamya unicolor
Bellamya unicolor is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae. [2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Genus: | Bellamya |
| Species: | B. unicolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Bellamya unicolor (Olivier, 1804) | |
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Distribution
This species is found in Africa: Senegal, ...
Ecology
Parasites of Bellamya unicolor include trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.[3]
References
- Van Damme, D.; Lange, C. (2016). "Bellamya unicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T98275044A84313812. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T98275044A84313812.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bellamya unicolor (Olivier, 1804). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1290761 on 2020-06-09
- Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.
- Germain L. (1907). Les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de l'Afrique centrale française. Pp. 457-617, in: A. Chevalier, L'Afrique centrale française. Augustin Challamel, Paris.
- Brown D.S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance, 2nd edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 607 p. page(s): 53, figs. 19a-c
- van Damme D. (1984). The freshwater mollusca of Northern Africa: Distribution, biogeography and paleoecology. Developments in Hydrobiology. 25: 1-163.
External links
- Olivier, G.A. (1804). Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse, fair par ordre du Gouvernement, pendant les six premières années de la République. Tome second, ii pp. + 466 pp. + Errata (1 pp.); Atlas, 2d livraison: vii pp., pl. 18-32. Paris (H. Agasse)
- Jousseaume, F., 1886. Coquilles du Haut-Sénégal. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 11: 471-502
- Rochebrune, A.-T. de. (1882). Sur quelques espèces du Haut-Sénégal. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris, series 7, 6. 33-35
- Van Damme, D. & Lange, C. (2016). Bellamya unicolor. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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