Biology:Helisoma

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Short description: Genus of gastropods

Helisoma
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.372960 - Helisoma anceps (Menke, 1830) - Planorbidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
Helisoma anceps
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Tribe: Helisomatini
Genus: Helisoma
Swainson, 1840[1]

Helisoma is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Synonym:

  • Carinifex Binney, 1864[2]

Helisoma snails are an intermediate host of Megalodiscus temperatus.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Helisoma include:

References

  1. Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London: Longman. p. 337. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450. 
  2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carinifex Binney in Carpenter, 1864". http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=992807. 
  3. Bolek, M.G.; Janovy, J. (2008). "Alternative life cycle strategies of Megalodiscus temperatus in tadpoles and metamorphosed anurans". Parasite 15 (3): 396–401. doi:10.1051/parasite/2008153396. ISSN 1252-607X. PMID 18814713.  open access

Wikidata ☰ Q3073692 entry