Austropeplea ollula
| Austropeplea ollula | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae |
| Genus: | Austropeplea |
| Species: | A. ollula
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| Binomial name | |
| Austropeplea ollula (Gould, 1859)[citation needed]
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Austropeplea ollula is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in:
Parasites
[edit]In Korea, Austropeplea ollula serves as a first and main intermediate host for the trematode species Echinostoma cinetorchis from the family Echinostomatidae.[2]
Austropeplea ollula also serves as first intermediate host for the fluke Neodiplostomum seoulense in Korea.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Correa, A. C.; Escobar, J. S.; Durand, P.; Renaud, F. O.; David, P.; Jarne, P.; Pointier, J. P.; Hurtrez-Boussès, S. (2010). "Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), vectors of Fascioliasis". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10: 381. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-381. PMC 3013105. PMID 21143890.
- ^ Chung, P. R.; Jung, Y.; Park, Y. K.; Hwang, M. K. (2001). "Austropeplea ollula (Pulmonata: Lymnaeidae): A new molluscan intermediate host of a human intestinal fluke, Echinostoma cinetorchis (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) in Korea". The Korean Journal of Parasitology. 39 (3): 247–253. doi:10.3347/kjp.2001.39.3.247. PMC 2721074. PMID 11590915.
- ^ Chung P-R., Jung Y., Park Y-K.& Hwang M-K. (2002) "Host specificity of Austropeplea ollula (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) to miracidial infection with a human intestinal fluke Neodiplostomum seoulense (Trematoda: Diplostomatidae) in Korea". The Journal of Parasitology 88(3): 630-631. abstract
External links
[edit]- Photo of the shell of Austropeplea ollula
- (in Japanese) https://web.archive.org/web/20091222132418/http://www.maff.go.jp/nouson/mizu_midori/frame/208f.html
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