Neotricula
Encyclopedia
Neotricula is a genus
freshwater snail
s which have a gill
and an operculum
, gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
s in the family
Pomatiopsidae
.
(at least 5 species), China, Laos (one species), Thailand and Cambodia.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s which have a gill
Gill
A gill is a respiratory organ found in many aquatic organisms that extracts dissolved oxygen from water, afterward excreting carbon dioxide. The gills of some species such as hermit crabs have adapted to allow respiration on land provided they are kept moist...
and an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...
, gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
Micromollusk
A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...
s in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Pomatiopsidae
Pomatiopsidae
Pomatiopsidae is a family of small mainly freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea ....
.
Distribution
The distribution of Neotricula includes HunanHunan
' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...
(at least 5 species), China, Laos (one species), Thailand and Cambodia.
Species
Species within the genus Neotricula include:- Neotricula apertaNeotricula apertaNeotricula aperta is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.This species serves as an intermediate host for Schistosoma mekongi.-Distribution:This species occurs:...
(Temcharoen, 1971) - Neotricula burchi (Davis, 1968)
External links
- Attwood S. W., Upatham E. S., Zhang Y.-P., Yang Z.-Q. & Southgate V. R. (2004). "A DNA-sequence based phylogeny for triculine snails (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae: Triculinae), intermediate hosts for Schistosoma (Trematoda: Digenea): phylogeography and the origin of Neotricula". Journal of ZoologyJournal of ZoologyThe Journal of Zoology is a scientific journal concerning zoology, the study of animals. It was founded in 1830 by the Zoological Society of London and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. It carries original research papers, which are targeted towards general readers...
262(1): 47-56. doi:10.1017/S0952836903004424.