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Composition and Distribution of Snail Fauna in Water Bodies around Irrigation Schemes of Benue River Valley, Yola Area, Adamawa State, Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management
Freshwater snails that act as intermediate host and some abiotic environmental factors plays a prominent roles in these infections. The objective of this paper as to assess the composition and distribution of the snail fauna in water bodies around ...
J. L. Daniel   +3 more
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SOME FRESHWATER SNAILS FROM NORTHERN IRAN

open access: yesIranian Journal of Public Health, 2000
There are many freshwater snails involved in the life cycle of parasitic flukes. Some of these animals, such as Bulinus spp and Lymnaea spp are very important in public health and veterinary medicine. For example, Bulinus trucatus and Lymnaeid snails transmit Human Bilharziosis and zoonotic Fascioliosis, respectively.
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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF FRESHWATER SNAILS OF IRAN

open access: yesIranian Journal of Public Health, 1986
This guide to the identification of Iranian freshwater snails has been prepared with aim of helping individuals involved in field work, but who have had no specialized training in taxonomy to differentiate snail specimens which they collect to certain ...
A.Mansoorian
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Tolerance to air exposure of the New Zealand mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Hydrobiidae, Mollusca) as a prerequisite to survival in overland translocations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Spreading throughout a new ecosystem is the last step of an exotic species to become invasive. In the case of invasive aquatic molluscs, tolerance to air exposure is one of the main mechanisms allowing overland translocation and spreading.
Alonso, Álvaro, Castro-Díez, Pilar
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Effects of External Calcium Concentrations on Calcium uptake in Freshwater Snail Planorbarius Corneus L.

open access: yesCroatian Journal of Fisheries
Calcium content of water is of fundamental importance for freshwater snails since it is correlated with growth rates, egg fertility and fecundity. In this study, calcium uptake from the external medium (tap water) in two groups of freshwater snail ...
Mažuran Neda, Kovačević Goran
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