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Biomphalaria
Sign in to saveBiomphalaria is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonates belonging to the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,020
- With media
- 76
- Family
- Planorbidae
- Collections
- SDNHM, UCMP
- Recorded in
- United States
Research
3,677 papers- Biomphalaria alexandrina in Egypt: past, present and future.Journal of biosciences · 2013
- Advances in gastropod immunity from the study of the interaction between the snail Biomphalaria glabrata and its parasites: A review of research progress over the last decade.Fish & shellfish immunology · 2015
- The relationship between Schistosoma mansoni and Biomphalaria glabrata: genetic and molecular approaches.Parasitology · 2001
- [Molecular tracing of Biomphalaria straminea in China].Zhongguo xue xi chong bing fang zhi za zhi = Chinese journal of schistosomiasis control · 2024
- Integrated multi-omic analyses in Biomphalaria-Schistosoma dialogue reveal the immunobiological significance of FREP-SmPoMuc interaction.Developmental and comparative immunology · 2017
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Biomphalaria is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonates belonging to the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.
Biomphalaria is the type genus of the tribe Biomphalariini. Both Planorbis and Taphius are synonyms for Biomphalaria.
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