Apical and apertural view of Biomphalaria sudanica
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Subclass:
Heterobranchia
Superorder:
Hygrophila
Family:
Planorbidae
Genus:
Biomphalaria
Species:
B. sudanica
Binomial name
Biomphalaria sudanica
(Martens, 1870)
Biomphalaria sudanica is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.[1]Biomphalaria sudanica has a discoidal, brown shell with an approximate shell diameter of 9–11mm. Biomphalaria sudanica is a medically important pest, due to it being an intermediate host of the intravascular trematode genus, Schistosoma.[2]
^Brown, David S (1994-05-26). Freshwater Snails Of Africa And Their Medical Importance. CRC Press. doi:10.1201/9781482295184. ISBN 978-1-4822-9518-4.
^Pointier, J. P.; David, P.; Jarne, P. (2005). "Biological invasions: The case of planorbid snails". Journal of Helminthology. 79 (3): 249–256. doi:10.1079/JOH2005292. PMID 16153319. S2CID 11158571.
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