Bithynia fuchsiana

Bithynia fuchsiana
Live Bithynia fuchsiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Order:Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:Truncatelloidea
Family:Bithyniidae
Genus:Bithynia
Species: B. fuchsiana
Binomial name
Bithynia fuchsiana
(Möllendorff, 1888)

Bithynia fuchsiana is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

Distribution

Distribution of this species includes:

Ecology

Bithynia fuchsiana inhabits lentic habitats such as lakes, rice fields, ponds and others.[1]

Bithynia fuchsiana serves as the first intermediate host for the trematode Clonorchis sinensis.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Madhyastha A. (2012). "Bithynia fuchsiana". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 December 2012.
  2. 1 2 World Health Organization (1995). Control of Foodborne Trematode Infection. WHO Technical Report Series. 849. PDF part 1, PDF part 2. page 125.
  3. ↑ Dung, Bui Thi; Madsen, Henry; The, Dang Tat (2010). "Distribution of freshwater snails in family-based VAC ponds and associated waterbodies with special reference to intermediate hosts of fish-borne zoonotic trematodes in Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam". Acta Tropica. 116 (1): 15–23. doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.04.016. PMID 20457118. .


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