Galba truncatula
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| Galba truncatula | |
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| Shells of Galba truncatula, the scale bar is in mm | |
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NE[1]
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Lymnaeinae |
| Genus: | Galba |
| Species: | G. truncatula |
| Binomial name | |
| Galba truncatula (O. F. Müller, 1774)[2] |
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Lymnaea truncatula |
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Galba truncatula is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
Until recently, this species was commonly known as Lymnaea truncatula.
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[edit] Description
The height of the shell is 5–10 mm and the width of the shell is 2.5–6 mm. This aquatic creature has a tendency to consume phalanges when it is in its natural habitat. (See Habitat)
[edit] Distribution
This species is found in a variety of European countries and islands including:
- Croatia
- Czech Republic - least concern (LC)[3]
- Germany - distributed in whole Germany but it is in 3 states in red list (Rote Liste BRD).[4]
- Netherlands[5]
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Ukraine
- Great Britain
- Ireland
and other areas.
[edit] Habitat
This species lives in shallow freshwater habitats and trunks.
[edit] Parasites
Galba truncatula is an intermediate host for these known trematodes:
- Fasciola hepatica, a liver fluke of sheep
- Fascioloides magna
- Haplometra cylindracea
- Muellerius capillaris
[edit] References
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 4 March 2007.
- ^ Müller, O. F. 1774. Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. - pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).
- ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
- ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- ^ http://www.anemoon.org/anm/voorlopige-kaarten/kaarten-per-soort/zoetwatermollusken/wetenschappelijk/galba-truncatula/ Galba truncatula, accessed 25 September 2008
[edit] Further reading
- Chapuis E. (2009) "Correlation between parasite prevalence and adult size in a trematode-mollusc system: evidence for evolutionary gigantism in the freshwater snail Galba truncatula?" Journal of Molluscan Studies 75(4): 391-396. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp035.
