Bulinus jousseaumei

Bulinus jousseaumei is a species of tropical freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails and their allies. Like other planorbids, the shell of the species is sinistral in coiling.

Bulinus jousseaumei
Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Bulinus jousseaumei by Arnould Locard from its type description by Philippe Dautzenberg (1890)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:
Planorboidea
Family:
Planorbidae
Subfamily:
Bulininae
Tribe:
Bulinini
Genus:
Bulinus
Species:
B. jousseaumei
Binomial name
Bulinus jousseaumei
Synonyms[1]

Isidora jousseaumei Dautzenberg, 1890

Distribution

The distribution of Bulinus jousseaumei includes Western Africa:

The type locality for this species is the Sénégal River close to Médine, Mali.[3]

Abapertural view of shell

Description

The width of the shell is 8 mm.[3] The height of the shell is 11 mm.[3]

Diploid chromosome number is 2n = 36.[3]

Ecology

This snail lives in permanent streams.[1] It can live in a water current that has a speed up to 0.86 m·s−1 based on laboratory experiments.[3]

The male part of the reproductive system is developed "slightly earlier" (protandry) in Bulinus jousseaumei.[3]

This species is an intermediate host for Schistosoma curassoni[3] and for Schistosoma haematobium.[3]

References
  1. Kristensen T. K. & Stensgaard A.-S. (2006). Bulinus jousseaumei. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 June 2011.
  2. Dautzenberg P. (1890). "Récoltes malacologiques de M.le Capitaine Em. Dorr, dans le haut-Sénégal, et le Soudan Francais de 1886 à 1889". Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 3: 123-135. page 132. Plate I, figure 10a, 10b.
  3. Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5. pages 228, 504.

Further reading
  • Green P., Dussart G. B. J. & Gibson C. (1992). "Surfacing and water-leaving behaviour of the freshwater pulmonate snails Lymnaea peregra (Müller), Biomphalaria glabrata (Say) and Bulinus jousseaumei (Dautzenberg)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 58(2): 169-179. doi:10.1093/mollus/58.2.169.
  • Wright C. A. (1957). "Studies on the structure and taxonomy of Bulinus jousseaumei (Dautzenberg)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 5: 1-28.
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