Prevalence of Cercariae Infection in Snails From the Lymnaeidae and Physidae Families in Aquatic Regions of Guilan Province, Northern Iran, and the Effect of Some Physicochemical Parameters of Water on Snail Abundance and Infection Rate [PDF]
Background: Some freshwater snails are as intermediate hosts of human and animal parasitic trematode. Study on freshwater snails’ fauna and cercariae infection play important role to detect sources of infection.
Mohammad Yakhchali, Meysam Sharifdini
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The Architecture of the Physid Musculature ofPhysa acutaDraparnaud, 1805 (Gastropoda: Physidae) [PDF]
ABSTRACT The basommatophoran family Physidae possesses a remarkable but little known set of muscles called the “physid musculature”. Using Physa acuta as a model, this musculature was shown to be anatomically complex and associated in places with the columellar muscle.
Naranjo-García, E., Appleton, C. C.
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Revisión de dos especies de Physidae Revision of two species of Physidae
A pesar de los numerosos trabajos que abordan desde diferentes ópticas la sistemática de Physidae, la situación taxonómica de las entidades de esta familia presentes en la Argentina es aún confusa.
Verónica Núñez
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Studies on Puerto Rican Physidae [PDF]
MEMBERS of the family Physidae a-re among the most ;common and widespread fresh-water mollusks in Puerto Rico and are frequently associated with Au8stralorbis glabratus, intermediate sna,il host of Schistosoma imansoni. In several recent papers on the ecology of A.
Charles S. Richards
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Morphological and molecular identification of the invasive freshwater snail Physa acuta (Gastropoda: Physidae) into Llanquihue Lake, Chilean Patagonia [PDF]
The sewage snail Physa acuta, native to North America, is an effective invasive species around the world. In Chile, it was first reported in 2014 in the north central area of the country.
GONZALO A. COLLADO +5 more
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Oviposiciones de pulmonado neotropicales (Moll. Basom.: Chilinidae, Physidae y Ancylidae)
En el presente trabajo se dan a conocer las oviposiciones de Chilina fluminea fluminea (Maton) y de Gundlachia concéntrica (D`Orbigny), y se comentan las puestas de Stenophysa marmorata (Guilding).
Sergio E. Miquel
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Survey of Diplostomiasis in Sturgeon Fingerling
In parasitologic survey on sturgeon fish in Shahid-Beheshti farm, the metacercaria of Diplostomum spathaceum were seen in the lens of fish fingerlings. The prevalence of infestation was 22 percent.
A. Ghoroghi
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There is a marked disparity in the state of knowledge of Holartic x Neotropical species of the freshwater snail family Physidae; the incipiency of data on Neotropical physids reflecting the lower number of dedicated specialists. The gaps in the knowledge
BIANCA SARTINI +5 more
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The first freshwater molluscs from Wrangel Island, Arctic Russia [PDF]
The first finding of a freshwater snail, Sibirenauta sibiricus (Westerlund, 1877), in one of the lakes on Wrangel Island (north-eastern Russia) is reported. No freshwater mollusc species have hitherto been known from this island.
Maxim V. Vinarski +2 more
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Identification of Physidae 1) Right- handed shells of various shapes: ovate, ovate-conical, spherical or quasi-spherical, outline elongate, asymmetrical, apex pointed................................................................................ – (Lymnaeidae). - Left-handed shells, spindle-shaped or ovoid-shaped, smooth and thin, pointed spire, small
Cieplok, Anna +4 more
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