Bulinus scalaris
Authors/Creators
- 1. Botswana National Museum, 331 Independence Avenue, Gaborone, Botswana School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA, Australia
Description
25. Bulinus scalaris (Dunker, 1845)
Distribution and year: pools near Linyanti village in Linyanti Channel (near Chobe River) [SMWN76302,
76308, 76326] 1986 (Brown et al. 1992); between Maun and Nxaraga Lagoon, pool beside road [ETD 4302] 1984 (Brown et al. 1992); Okavango Delta 2000 (Appleton et al. 2003).
Geographic range: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Habitat: Freshwater.
Notes: The native range of this species covers Eastern, Southern and Central Africa. The molluscs inhabit seasonal rain pools and irrigation channels (Brown 1994).
Type locality: Lake and swamps in the vicinity of Benguela, Angola (Dunker 1845).
Sources: Appleton et al. (2003: 58–68); GBIF (2023 b).
Conservation status: Least Concern.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.13132605 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC9A51FD30AFFB1FF80032CFF83FFD4 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/716CBDAD-9ACA-4820-A6C4-93158C907654 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03F0DD67D303FFB8FF1704BAFB5AFD04 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/263454526 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Dunker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Bulinidae
- Genus
- Bulinus
- Species
- scalaris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bulinus scalaris (Dunker, 1845) sec. Rapalai, 2024
References
- DUNKER, W. 1845. Diagnoses molluscorum quorundam novorum, quae ex itinere ad oras Africae occidentalis reportavit cl. G. Tams, Med. Dr. Zeitschrift fur Malakozoologie 1845 (11): 163-168. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16291751
- BROWN, D. S., CURTIS, B. A., BETHUNE, S. & APPLETON, C. C. 1992. Freshwater snails of East Caprivi and the lower Okavango River basin in Namibia and Botswana. Hydrobiologia 246: 9-40. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00005620
- APPLETON, C. C., CURTIS, B. A., ALONSO, L. E. & KIPPING, J. 2003. Freshwater invertebrates of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. In: Alonso, L. E. & Nordin, L. A. (Eds), A rapid biological assessment of the aquatic ecosystems of the Okavango Delta, Botswana: High Water Survey. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment. Vol. 27. Washington, DC:
- BROWN, D. S. 1994. Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. London, Taylor and Francis.
- GBIF. 2023 b. Occurrence download. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0257952-