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Bulinus
Sign in to saveBulinus is a genus of small tropical freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Bulinidae, the ramshorn snails and their allies.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- FamilyBulinidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations17
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,964
- With media
- 234
- Family
- Bulinidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, YPM, MSB
- Recorded in
- Kenya, Canada, Egypt
Research
1,093 papers- Transcriptional profiling of Bulinus globosus provides insights into immune gene families in snails supporting the transmission of urogenital schistosomiasis.Developmental and comparative immunology · 2024
- Bulinus snails in the Lake Victoria Basin in Kenya: Systematics and their role as hosts for schistosomes.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023
- Identification of Bulinus forskalii as a potential intermediate host of Schistosoma hæmatobium in Senegal.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023
- Differentiation of Bulinus senegalensis and Bulinus forskalii Snails in West Africa Using Morphometric Analysis.Acta parasitologica · 2024
- Interactions between intermediate snail hosts of the genus Bulinus and schistosomes of the Schistosoma haematobium group.Parasitology · 2001
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Planorbidae
- Image
- Bulinus wrighti.png
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- Commons category
- Bulinus
- topic's main category
- Category:Bulinus
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Bulinus
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Description
- Distribution and habitat
- Feeding strategies
- Dormancy
- Invasive effects
- Schistosomiasis transmission
- Species
- References
Bulinus is a genus of small tropical freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Bulinidae, the ramshorn snails and their allies.
This genus is medically important because several species of Bulinus function as intermediate hosts for the schistosomiasis blood fluke.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bulinus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.