Bellamya unicolor

Bellamya unicolor is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae. [2]

Bellamya unicolor
Bellamya unicolor shell (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Viviparoidea
Family:
Bellamyinae
Genus:
Bellamya
Species:
B. unicolor
Binomial name
Bellamya unicolor
(Olivier, 1804)
Synonyms
  • Bellamya bellamya Jousseaume, 1886
  • Cyclostoma unicolor Olivier, 1804 (original combination)
  • Vivipara duponti De Rochebrune, 1882 (a junior synonym)
  • Vivipara unicolor (Olivier, 1804)
  • Vivipara unicolor var. lenfanti Germain, 1907
  • Viviparus unicolor (Olivier, 1804) (superseded combination)

Distribution

This species is found in Africa: Senegal, ...

Ecology

Parasites of Bellamya unicolor include trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.[3]

References
  1. Van Damme, D. & Lange, C. 2016. Bellamya unicolor. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T98275044A84313812. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T98275044A84313812.en. Downloaded on 20 November 2017.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bellamya unicolor (Olivier, 1804). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1290761 on 2020-06-09
  3. Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.
  • Germain L. (1907). Les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de l'Afrique centrale française. Pp. 457-617, in: A. Chevalier, L'Afrique centrale française. Augustin Challamel, Paris.
  • Brown D.S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance, 2nd edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 607 p. page(s): 53, figs. 19a-c
  • van Damme D. (1984). The freshwater mollusca of Northern Africa: Distribution, biogeography and paleoecology. Developments in Hydrobiology. 25: 1-163.


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