Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Planorbidae Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Planorboidea Subfamily Bulininae | |
Similar Bulinus reticulatus, Bulinus tropicus, Biomphalaria pfeifferi, Bulinus globosus, Bulinus truncatus | ||
Bulinus abyssinicus is a species of tropical freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails and their allies.
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The specific name abyssinicus is after Abyssinia, which was the historic name for the Ethiopian Empire, where its type locality is.
Distribution
The distribution of Bulinus abyssinicus includes the Lower Valley of the Awash, Ethiopia and Somalia.
The type locality is "southern Abyssinia", which means the Ethiopian Empire, now Ethiopia.
Description
The width of the shell is 9 mm. The height of the shell is 14 mm.
The diploid chromosome number is 2n = 36.
Ecology
This small snail lives in marshes and in pools.
This species is an intermediate host for Schistosoma bovis and for Schistosoma haematobium.
References
Bulinus abyssinicus Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA