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Bulinus truncatus
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A lateral view of the shell of Bulinus truncatus truncatus
Scientific classification
Synonyms
  • Bulinus (Bulinus) truncatus (Audoin, 1827) (new combination)
  • Bulinus (Isidora) dybowskii P. Fischer, 1891· accepted, alternate representation
  • Bulinus (Isidora) truncatus (Audouin, 1827)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Bulinus (Isidora) truncatus rohlfsi (Clessin, 1886) (junior synonym)
  • Bulinus (Isidora) truncatus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Bulinus dybowskii P. Fischer, 1891
  • Bulinus guernei (Dautzenberg, 1890) (junior synonym)
  • Bulinus hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1831) (junior synonym)
  • Bulinus rohlfsi (Clessin, 1886)
  • Bulinus sericinus (Jickeli, 1874) (a junior synonym)
  • Bullinus (Isidora) mussolinii Piersanti, 1940 (a junior synonym)
  • Isidora guernei Dautzenberg, 1890 (junior synonym)
  • Isidora hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1831
  • Isidora sericina Jickeli, 1874 (a junior synonym)
  • Physa (Isidora) vaneyi Germain, 1907
  • Physa coulboisi Bourguignat, 1888 (junior synonym)
  • Physa mutandaensis Preston, 1913 (junior synonym)
  • Physa rohlfsi Clessin, 1886 (a junior synonym)
  • Physa truncata Audouin, 1827

Bulinus truncatus is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulininae of the family Bulinidae, the ram's horn snails and the like.

Subspecies
  • Bulinus truncatus contortus (Michaud, 1829) (synonym: Physa contorta Michaud, 1829 )
  • Bulinus truncatus rivularis (Philippi, 1836)
  • Bulinus truncatus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)

Distribution

Distribution of Bulinus truncatus include:

  • Africa: Egypt, Morocco Northern Sahara, D.R. Congo, Malawi and Ethiopia.
  • As of 2011 in Ferlo Valley, Western Africa: Senegal
  • As of 2014 in El Ejido (province of Almeria, southern Andalusia), lagoon of Villena (province of Alicante, northern Catalonia, Spain
  • Continental France and Corsica
  • Continental Greece and Crete
  • Italy (Sardinia and Sicily)
  • Portugal
  • Malta
  • Middle East (Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and Yemen).

Parasites

This species is an intermediate host for Schistosoma haematobium and Paramphistomum cervi and Paramphistomum microbothrium.

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