Pleurocera canaliculata
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Pleurocera canaliculata (Say, 1821)
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Pleurocera nobile |
Pleurocera canaliculata is a species of a freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae, the hornsnails.
Ecology
Parasites of Pleurocera canaliculata include trematodes Cotylaspis cokeri and Cotylogaster occidentalis.[1]
References
- ^ 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): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.
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