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Biomphalaria salinarum

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

32. Biomphalaria salinarum (Morelet, 1867)

Distribution and year: Lake Ngami N/A (Connolly 1912; 1939).

Geographic range: Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, South Africa.

Habitat: Freshwater.

Notes: The species is an intermediate host of parasites Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma edwardiense

Thurston, 1964, notorious for causing schistosomiasis (Brown 1994).

Type locality: In a stream connected to Dungo salt pans near Cuije River, Angola (Morelet 1866).

Sources: Connolly (1912: 238, as Planorbis salinarum, a subfossil record; 1939: 487); van Bruggen (1966 a: 109).

Conservation status: Data Deficient.

Notes

Published as part of Rapalai, Boikhutso Lerato, 2024, An annotated checklist of molluscs recorded from Botswana, pp. 15-44 in Indago 41 on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13132605

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F0DD67D301FFBAFF1705DAFB5AFE64

Cites
Publication: 10520/AJA00411752_297 (Handle)
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)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03F0DD67D301FFBAFF1705DAFB5AFE64 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/263454541 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/310370/taxon/03F0DD67D301FFBAFF1705DAFB5AFE64.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Morelet
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Littorinimorpha
Family
Planorbidae
Genus
Biomphalaria
Species
salinarum
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Biomphalaria salinarum (Morelet, 1867) sec. Rapalai, 2024

References

  • MORELET, A. 1867. Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. In: Voyage du Dr Friederich Welwitsch execute par ordre du Gouvernement Portugais dans les royaumes d'Angola et de Benguella (Afrique equinoxiale). Paris, London, New York: J. - B. Bailliere et fils. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12983668
  • CONNOLLY, M. W. K. 1912. A revised reference list of South African non-marine Mollusca; with descriptions of new species in the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 11 (3): 59-306. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43652#page/7
  • CONNOLLY, M. W. K. 1939. A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. Annals of the South African Museum 33: 1-660.
  • BROWN, D. S. 1994. Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. London, Taylor and Francis.
  • MORELET, A. 1866. Coquilles nouvelles recueillies par le Dr Fr. Welwitsch dans l'Afrique equatoriale, et particulierement dans les provinces portugaises d'Angola et de Benguella. Journal de conchyliologie 14 (2): 153-163. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15667391
  • VAN BRUGGEN, A. C. 1966 a. Notes on non-marine molluscs from Mozambique and Bechuanaland, with a checklist of Bechuanaland species. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 25 (6): 99-111, pl. 10. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA00411752_297