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Bulinus truncatus

Bulinus truncatus
A lateral view of the shell of Bulinus truncatus truncatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Planorbidae
Genus:	Bulinus
Species:	B. truncatus
Binomial name
Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)
Synonyms[1][2]
Bulinus (Bulinus) truncatus (Audoin, 1827) (new combination) Bulinus (Isidora) dybowskii P. Fischer, 1891· accepted, alternate representation Bulinus (Isidora) truncatus (Audouin, 1827)· accepted, alternate representation Bulinus (Isidora) truncatus rohlfsi (Clessin, 1886) (junior synonym) Bulinus (Isidora) truncatus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)· accepted, alternate representation Bulinus dybowskii P. Fischer, 1891 Bulinus guernei (Dautzenberg, 1890) (junior synonym) Bulinus hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1831) (junior synonym) Bulinus rohlfsi (Clessin, 1886) Bulinus sericinus (Jickeli, 1874) (a junior synonym) Bullinus (Isidora) mussolinii Piersanti, 1940 (a junior synonym) Isidora guernei Dautzenberg, 1890 (junior synonym) Isidora hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1831 Isidora sericina Jickeli, 1874 (a junior synonym) Physa (Isidora) vaneyi Germain, 1907 Physa coulboisi Bourguignat, 1888 (junior synonym) Physa mutandaensis Preston, 1913 (junior synonym) Physa rohlfsi Clessin, 1886 (a junior synonym) Physa truncata Audouin, 1827

Bulinus truncatus is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulininae of the family Bulinidae, the ram's horn snails and the like.^[3]

Subspecies

• Bulinus truncatus contortus (Michaud, 1829) (synonym: Physa contorta Michaud, 1829 )
• Bulinus truncatus rivularis (Philippi, 1836)
• Bulinus truncatus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)

Distribution of Bulinus truncatus include:

• Africa: Egypt, Morocco Northern Sahara, D.R. Congo, Malawi and Ethiopia.^[4]
• As of 2011^[update]inFerlo Valley, Western Africa: Senegal^[5]
• As of 2014^[update]inEl Ejido (province of Almeria, southern Andalusia), lagoon of Villena (province of Alicante, northern Catalonia, Spain^[6]
• Continental France and Corsica ^[7][8]
• Continental Greece and Crete^[9]
• Italy (Sardinia and Sicily)^[10]
• Portugal
• Malta^[10]
• Middle East (Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and Yemen).

This species is an intermediate host for Schistosoma haematobium and Paramphistomum cervi and Paramphistomum microbothrium.^{[citation needed]}

• Audouin, V. (1828). Explication sommaire des planches de Mollusques de l'Egypte et de la Syrie publiées par J.C. Savigny. in: Description de l'Egypte ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, publié par les ordres de sa majesté l'empereur Napoléon le grand. 2ème édition, dédiée au roi. Histoire Naturelle, Animaux invertébrés 22: 117–212. Paris: Panckouke.
• Preston, H.B. (1913). New species and varieties of terrestrial and fluviatile shells from Equatorial Africa. Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 3 (1): 47–62, 212, pl. 4–6. Bruxelles
• Neubert, E. (1998). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial and freshwater molluscs of the Arabian Peninsula with descriptions of new species. Fauna of Arabia. 17: 333–461.

• Celie, P. H. N.; Klaassen, R. V.; Van Rossum-Fikkert, S. E.; Van Elk, R.; Van Nierop, P.; Smit, A. B.; Sixma, T. K. (2005). "Crystal Structure of Acetylcholine-binding Protein from Bulinus truncatus Reveals the Conserved Structural Scaffold and Sites of Variation in Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280 (28): 26457–26466. doi:10.1074/jbc.M414476200. PMID 15899893.
• Mouahid, A.; Moné, H.; Chaib, A.; Théron, A. (1991). "Cercarial shedding patterns of Schistosoma bovis and S. Haematobium from single and mixed infections of Bulinus truncatus". Journal of Helminthology. 65 (1): 8–14. doi:10.1017/S0022149X00010373. PMID 2050991. S2CID 42368420.
• Rollinson, D.; De Clercq, D.; Sacko, M.; Traoré, M.; Sene, M.; Southgate, V. R.; Vercruysse, J. (1997). "Observations on compatibility between Bulinus truncatus and Schistosoma haematobium in the Senegal River Basin". Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. 91 (4): 371–378. doi:10.1080/00034989760996. PMID 9290844..

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