Helisoma
| Helisoma | |
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| Helisoma anceps | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Tribe: | Helisomatini |
| Genus: | Swainson, 1840[1] |
| Synonyms | |
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Helisoma is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Helisoma snails are an intermediate host of Megalodiscus temperatus.[2]
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Helisoma:
- Helisoma anceps (Menke, 1830)
- †Helisoma brevispira (Yen, 1946)
- †Helisoma dongdawusuensis (G.-X. Zhu, 1976)
- Helisoma eucosmium (Bartsch, 1908)
- Helisoma eyerdami Clench & Aguayo, 1932
- †Helisoma kettlemanensis Pilsbry, 1934
- †Helisoma lincki (Schütze, 1907)
- †Helisoma llanerensis (K. van W. Palmer, 1945)
- †Helisoma malheurense (J. Henderson & Rodeck, 1934)
- †Helisoma marshalli (Arnold, 1909)
- Helisoma minus (J. G. Cooper, 1870)
- Helisoma newberryi (I. Lea, 1858)
- †Helisoma parallelum A. B. Leonard & Franzen, 1944
- †Helisoma paritis X.-H. Yu, 1987
- Helisoma peruvianum (Broderip, 1832)
- †Helisoma ringentis X.-H. Yu, 1987
- †Helisoma sanctaeclarae (Hannibal, 1909)
- †Helisoma sheyangensis H.-J. Wang, 1977
- †Helisoma shotwelli (D. W. Taylor, 1963)
- †Helisoma triangulatum Pierce, 2001
References
- ^ Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London: Longman. p. 337.
- ^ Bolek, M.G.; Janovy, J. (2008). "Alternative life cycle strategies of Megalodiscus temperatus in tadpoles and metamorphosed anurans". Parasite. 15 (3): 396–401. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.621.1582. doi:10.1051/parasite/2008153396. ISSN 1252-607X. PMID 18814713.