Pseudosuccinea columella

Pseudosuccinea columella
drawing of apertural view of the shell of Pseudosuccinea columella
Conservation status
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Lymnaeidae
Subfamily: Lymnaeinae[2]
Genus: Pseudosuccinea
Species: P. columella
Binomial name
Pseudosuccinea columella
(Say, 1817)[3]
Synonyms

Lymnaea columella Say, 1817

Pseudosuccinea columella, common name the "American ribbed fluke snail", is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

This snail is an intermediate host for Fasciola hepatica, the liver fluke, a parasite of livestock, especially sheep.[4]

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Distribution

Pseudosuccinea columella is native to North America. However, this snail has been introduced to Australia[5] and Europe.[6]

The type locality is unknown, but is somewhere in the Philadelphia area, USA.[7]

Indigenous distribution of Pseudosuccinea columella include from New Brunswick and south Manitoba throughout eastern USA to Central and South America.[8]

Non-indigenous distribution of Pseudosuccinea columella include:

Europe:

Description

The shell is very similar to shells of Succinea, which belong to different family.

The shell of Pseudosuccinea columella is horny brown, thin, translucent, fragile and very finely striated.[8] The upper whorls are peaky.[8] The shell has 3.5-4 weakly convex whorls with shallow suture.[8] The last whorl is predominating.[8] The aperture is ovate.[8] The upper palatal margin is descending steeply.[8] The columellar margin is reflected only at its upper section.[8] The lower columellar margin sharp and straight.[8]

The width of the shell is 8–13 mm.[8] The height of the shell is 15–20 mm.[8]

The animal is dusky with whitish spots.[8] Eyes are small and black, located at the inner base of the tentacles.[8]

Haploid number of chromosomes is 18 (n=18).[13]

Habitat

In northern America Pseudosuccinea columella lives in stagnant waters, at the edges of lakes, ponds, muddy and sluggish streams, among lily pads and reeds on sticks and mud.[8]

In Europe predominantly in greenhouses, sometimes also outside (Austria, Hungary).[8] It needs warm waters and does not survive central European winter temperatures.[8] It is also found outside the water on floating leaves of aquatic plants, in northern Greece in a spring near a road.[8]

Parasites

Parasites of Pseudosuccinea columella include:

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [8]

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 22 July 2007.
  2. ^ Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0.
  3. ^ Say T. (1817). "Description of seven species of American fresh water and land shells, not noticed in the systems". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1(1-2): 13-18. page 14-15.
  4. ^ a b Torgerson P. & Claxton J. (1999). "Epidemiology and Control". In: Dalton J. P. (ed.) "Fasciolosis". CAB International, Wallingford, pp. 113-149.
  5. ^ a b "Pseudosuccinea columella (Say)". Last updated 19 September 2004, accessed 28 March 2011.
  6. ^ Remigio E. A. (2002). "Molecular phylogenetic relationships in the aquatic snail genus Lymnaea, the intermediate host of the causative agent of fascioliasis: insights from broader taxon sampling". Parasitology Research 88(7): 687-696. PubMed, doi:10.1007/s00436-002-0658-8.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i Pointier J.-P., Coustau C., Rondelaud D. & Theron A. (2007). "Pseudosuccinea columella (Say 1817) (Gastropoda, Lymnaeidae), snail host of Fasciola hepatica: first record for France in the wild". Parasitology Research 101(5): 1389-1392. doi:10.1007/s00436-007-0656-y.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z "Species summary for Pseudosuccinea columella". AnimalBase, last modified 25 March 2011, accessed 28 March 2011.
  9. ^ Agudo-Padrón A. I. (14 May 2009). "Recent Terrestrial and Freshwater Molluscs of Rio Grande do Sul State, RS, Southern Brazil Region: A Comprehensive Synthesis and Check List". Visaya April 2009, pages 1-13. PDF.
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  11. ^ (Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
  12. ^ Stalazs A. (2002). "List of snail species in Latvia". Last modifications 21 August 2002, accessed 28 March 2011.
  13. ^ Correa C. A., Escobar J. S., Durand P., Renaud F., David P., Jarne P., Pointier J.-P. & Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2010). "Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), vectors of Fascioliasis". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 381. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-381.
  14. ^ First report of larval stages of Fasciola hepatica in a wild population of Pseudosuccinea columella from Cuba and the Caribbean, Journal of Helminthology, 2011, 85 (1), p. 109-111
  15. ^ Krull W. H. (1933). "New snail hosts for Fasciola magna (Bassi, 1875) Stiles, 1894". J. Parasitol. 20: 107-108.
  16. ^ Echaubard P., Little K., Pauli B. & Lesbarrères D. (2010). "Context-Dependent Effects of Ranaviral Infection on Northern Leopard Frog Life History Traits". PLoS ONE 5(10): e13723. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013723.

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