Drawing of apical, apertural and umbilical view of the shell of Biomphalaria pfeifferi.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Subclass:
Heterobranchia
Superorder:
Hygrophila
Family:
Planorbidae
Genus:
Biomphalaria
Species:
B. pfeifferi
Binomial name
Biomphalaria pfeifferi
(Krauss, 1848)[1]
Biomphalaria pfeifferi is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic animal pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
This snail is a medically important pest,[2] because of transferring the disease schistosomiasis.[3]
^(in German and Latin) Krauss F. (1848). Die Sudafrikanischen Mollusken. Ebnert & Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp, 6 plates. page 83, plate 5, figure 7.
^Cite error: The named reference Pointier2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Hofkin, Bruce V.; Koech, Davy K.; Oumaj, John; Loker, Eric S. (October 1991). "The North American Crayfish Procambarus clarkii and the Biologica Control of Schistosome-Transmitting Snails in Kenya: Laboratory and Field Investigations". Biological Control. 1 (3): 183–187. Bibcode:1991BiolC...1..183H. doi:10.1016/1049-9644(91)90065-8.
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