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unusual facts about freshwater snail



Bembridge Beds

The Bembridge marls, freshwater, estuarine and marine clays and marls (70–120 ft.) rest upon the Bembridge limestone, a freshwater pool deposit (15–25 ft.), with large land snails (Amphidromus and Helix), freshwater snails (Planorbis, Lymnaea), and the fruits of Chara.

Capsaspora

Capsaspora is a monotypic genus containg the single species Capsaspora owczarzaki, a single-celled eukaryote which is a symbiont in the haemolymph of the tropical freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata.

Eomecon

Extracts of this plant have been effective at eliminating the freshwater snail Oncomelania hupensis, the intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum, a fluke that causes schistosomiasis.

Marstonia ogmorhaphe

Marstonia ogmorhaphe, common names the royal marstonia or royal springsnail, is a minute species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails.

Megalodiscus temperatus

The primary host is frogs and the intermediate hosts of Megalodiscus temeperatus are freshwater snails in the genus Helisoma.

Otto Franz von Möllendorff

In 1894, Jose Rizal sent (from Dapitan) to Möllendorff (who was in Manila at that time) specimens of large sea snails know as tun shells together with some specimens of a species of small freshwater snails stored in glass vials.

Trypsin inhibitor

A study revealing that protease inhibitor from the eggs of the freshwater snail Pomacea canaliculata, interacting as a trypsin inhibitor with the protease of potential predators, was reported in 2010, the first direct evidence for this mechanism in the animal kingdom.

Vladimir Pešić

Vladimir Pešić is a scientist from Montenegro, a biologist who is an expert on Hydrachnidiae, the water mites, and a co-author taxon authority for a new species of freshwater snail Valvata montenegrina Glöer & Pešić, 2008 (Valvatidae, Gastropoda).


see also

A. walkeri

Amnicola walkeri, the Canadian duskysnail, a freshwater snail species

Alamosa springsnail

Tryonia alamosae, common name the Alamosa springsnail, is a species of small freshwater snail, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.

Algae eater

Most species of freshwater snails, discounting most adult specimens of species belonging to the family Ampullariidae, which primarily subsist on aquatic plants as adults.

C. compacta

Cochliopina compacta, a very small freshwater snail species endemic to Mexico

Dalbergia sissoo

Ethanolic extract of the fruits of Dalbergia sissoo exhibited molluscicide effect against eggs of the freshwater snail Biomphalaria pfeifferi.

Franz Hermann Troschel

A few of the species that contain his name are Troschel's sea star (Evasterias troschelii), Troschel's parrotfish (Chlorurus troschelii), Troschel's murex (Murex troschelii) and freshwater snail Bithynia troschelii.

Fritz Haas

Haas' specialty involved the study of land and freshwater snails, as well as research of the family Unionidae (freshwater mussels).

H. minuta

Hauffenia minuta, a minute freshwater snail species found in France and Switzerland

Jules René Bourguignat

Lanistes alexandri Bourguignat, 1850, a species of freshwater snail

Marstonia pachyta

The armored marstonia, scientific name Marstonia pachyta, also known as Pyrgulopsis pachyta, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.

Melania

Red-rimmed melania, small freshwater snail with an operculum, in the family Thiaridae

N. minuta

Neohoratia minuta, a very small freshwater snail species endemic to Switzerland

Purbeck Marble

Its characteristic appearance comes from densely packed shells of the freshwater snail Viviparus.

S. nitida

Segmentina nitida, the shining ram's-horn snail, a freshwater snail species found in Europe

Spirorchiidae

Some species of spirochiids are parasites of freshwater snail Indoplanorbis exustus.