Bellamya unicolor

Bellamya unicolor
Bellamya unicolor shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Viviparoidea
Family: Bellamyinae
Genus: Bellamya
Species: B. unicolor
Binomial name
Bellamya unicolor
(Olivier, 1804)

Bellamya unicolor is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.

Distribution

This species is found in Africa: Senegal, ...

Ecology

Parasites of Bellamya unicolor include trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.[2]

References

  1. Van Damme, D. & Lange, C. 2016. Bellamya unicolor. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T98275044A84313812. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T98275044A84313812.en. Downloaded on 20 November 2017.
  2. Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334.


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