Neotricula

Neotricula is a genus freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Neotricula
Neotricula aperta on a stone
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily:
Triculinae
Tribe:
Pachydrobiini[1]
Genus:
Neotricula

Davis in Davis, Subba Rao & Hoagland, 1986[2]
Diversity[3]
At least 5 species

Distribution

The distribution of Neotricula includes Hunan (at least 5 species),[3] China, Laos (one species),[3] Thailand[4] and Cambodia.[4]

Species

Species within the genus Neotricula include:

References
  1. Davis G. M. & Kang Z.-B. (1990). "The genus Wuconchona of China (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae: Triculinae): anatomy, systematics, cladistics, and transmission of Schistosoma". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 142: 119-142. JSTOR 4064974
  2. Davis G. M., Subba Rao N. V. & Hoagland K. E. (1986). "In Search of Tricula (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia): Tricula Defined, and a New Genus Described". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 138(2): 426-442. JSTOR. page 436.
  3. Attwood S. W., Fatih F. A. & Upatham E. S. (2008). "DNA-Sequence Variation Among Schistosoma mekongi Populations and Related Taxa; Phylogeography and the Current Distribution of Asian Schistosomiasis". PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2(3): e200. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000200.
  4. Attwood S. W., Ambu S., Meng X. H., Upatham E. S., Xu F.-S. et al. (2003). "The phylogenetics of triculine snails (Rissooidea: Pomatiopsidae) from south-east Asia and southern China: historical biogeography and the transmission of human schistosomiasis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 69(3): 263-271. doi:10.1093/mollus/69.3.263.
  • 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 Zoology 262(1): 47-56. doi:10.1017/S0952836903004424.


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