Lymnaea luteola
Encyclopedia
Radix luteola is a species
of freshwater snail
, an aquatic
gastropod mollusc in the family
Lymnaeidae
.
Placement of this species in the genus Radix have been confirmed by Correa et al. (2010).
There exist two forms:
for trematodes:
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
, an aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
gastropod mollusc in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Lymnaeidae
Lymnaeidae
Lymnaeidae is a taxonomic family of small to large air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks, that belong to the clade Hygrophila....
.
Placement of this species in the genus Radix have been confirmed by Correa et al. (2010).
There exist two forms:
- Radix luteola f. australis
- Radix luteola f. ovalis
Parasites
Radix luteola is the first intermediate hostIntermediate host
A secondary host or intermediate host is a host that harbors the parasite only for a short transition period, during which some developmental stage is completed. For trypanosomes, the cause of sleeping sickness, humans are the primary host, while the tsetse fly is the secondary host...
for trematodes:
- Schistosoma nasaleSchistosoma nasaleSchistosoma nasale is a species of digenetic trematode in the family Schistosomatidae.Schistosoma nasale was identified in 1933 by Dr. M. A. N...
- Schistosoma indicumSchistosoma indicumSchistosoma spindale is a species of digenetic trematode in the family Schistosomatidae.The parasite is widespread in India and other Asian countries....
- Schistosoma spindaleSchistosoma spindaleSchistosoma spindale is a species of digenetic trematode in the family Schistosomatidae. It causes intestinal schistosomiasis of cattle.The distribution of Schistosoma spindale include Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia and Laos....
- Schistosoma suis
- Schistosoma incognitum
- Fasciola giganticaFasciola giganticaFasciola gigantica is a parasitic flatworm of the class Trematoda, which causes tropical fascioliasis. It is regarded as one of the most important single platyhelminth infections of ruminants in Asia and Africa...
- Fasciola hepaticaFasciola hepaticaFasciola hepatica, also known as the common liver fluke or sheep liver fluke, is a parasitic flatworm of the class Trematoda, phylum Platyhelminthes that infects the livers of various mammals, including humans. The disease caused by the fluke is called fascioliasis . F...
- Clinostomum giganticum
- Echinostoma revolutum
- Orientobilharzia dattae
- Echinoparyphium bugulai