2011-07-21

Bulinus abyssinicus

Bulinus abyssinicus

Bulinus abyssinicus
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Genus: Bulinus
Species: B. abyssinicus
Binomial name
Bulinus abyssinicus
(von Martens, 1866)
Synonyms
  • Physa (Physopsis) abyssinica Martens, 1866
  • Physopsis meneliki Bourguignat, 1885
  • Physopsis soleilleti Bourguignat, 1885

Bulinus abyssinicus is a species of tropical freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails and their allies.

The specific name abyssinicus is after Abyssinia, which was the historic name for the Ethiopian Empire, where its type locality is.

Distribution

The distribution of Bulinus abyssinicus includes the Lower Valley of the Awash, Ethiopia and Somalia.

The type locality is "southern Abyssinia", which means the Ethiopian Empire, now Ethiopia.

Description

The width of the shell is 9 mm. The height of the shell is 14 mm.

The diploid chromosome number is 2n = 36.

Ecology

This small snail lives in marshes and in pools.

This species is an intermediate host for and for Schistosoma haematobium.

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