Pseudosuccinea columella
| Pseudosuccinea columella | |
|---|---|
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| 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[4] | |
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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.[6]
Distribution
Indigenous
Pseudosuccinea columella is native to North America.[7] and Europe.[8] The indigenous distribution of Pseudosuccinea columella reaches from New Brunswick and south Manitoba throughout the eastern USA to Central and South America.[9]
The exact type locality for this species is unknown, but it is somewhere in the Philadelphia area, USA.[10]
Introduced
This snail has been introduced to Australia[7] and Europe.[11]
The non-indigenous distribution of Pseudosuccinea columella includes:
- western USA[9] (distribution map in the USA)
- Puerto Rico[10]
- Venezuela[10]
- Brazil:[10] Rio Grande do Sul[12]
- Argentina[10]
- Australia[7][9]
- South Africa[9][13] - since 1942[10]
- other countries in Africa[10]
- Pacific islands[10]
Europe:
- Switzerland (Basel)[9]
- Austria (Villach)[9]
- Hungary[9]
- Greece (Nómos Florina)[9]
- Menorca[9] (a Spanish island)
- France - in the wild[10]
- Czech Republic as a "hothouse alien"[14]
- Latvia as a "hothouse alien"[15]
Description
The shell quite closely resembles shells in the genus Succinea, which belongs to a different family.
The shell of Pseudosuccinea columella is horny brown, thin, translucent, fragile and very finely striated. The apex is pointed. The shell has 3.5-4 weakly convex whorls with a shallow suture. The last whorl predominates. The aperture is ovate. The upper palatal margin descends steeply. The columellar margin is reflected only at its upper section; the lower columellar margin sharp and straight.[9]
The width of the shell is 8–13 mm. The height of the shell is 15–20 mm.[9]
 Apertural view of the shell |
 Abapertural view of the shell |
The animal is dusky with whitish spots. The eyes are small and black and are located at the inner base of the tentacles.[9]
The haploid number of chromosomes is 18 (n=18).[16]
Habitat
In North 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.[9]
In Europe it occurs predominantly in greenhouses, but also sometimes in outdoor habitats (Austria, Hungary).[9] It needs warm water and does not survive Central European winter temperatures.[9] It is also found above the water on floating leaves of aquatic plants; in northern Greece it was found in a spring near a road.[9]
Parasites
Parasites of Pseudosuccinea columella include:
- In North America, Pseudosuccinea columella is major intermediate host of Fasciola hepatica.[6][17]
- The species also serve as a snail host for Fascioloides magna.[18]
- Also serves as a host for the cercariae of the trematode Telorchis sp.[19]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [9]
- ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 22 July 2007.
- ↑ Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Bargues M. D., Artigas P., Khoubbane M. & Mas-Coma S. (2011). "DNA sequence characterisation and phylogeography of Lymnaea cousini and related species, vectors of fascioliasis in northern Andean countries, with description of L. meridensis n. sp. (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae)". Parasites & Vectors 4: 132. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-4-132.
- ↑ Piaget J. (1914). "Quelques Mollusques de Colombie". Mémoires de la Société neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles, Neuchâtel, 5: 253-269. page 266, plate 9, figure 5.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Torgerson P. & Claxton J. (1999). "Epidemiology and Control". In: Dalton J. P. (ed.) "Fasciolosis". CAB International, Wallingford, pp. 113-149.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Pseudosuccinea columella (Say)". Last updated 19 September 2004, accessed 28 March 2011.
- ↑ e., R. (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. doi:10.1007/s00436-002-0658-8. PMID 12107463.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 9.10 9.11 9.12 9.13 9.14 9.15 9.16 "Species summary for Pseudosuccinea columella". AnimalBase, last modified 25 March 2011, accessed 28 March 2011.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 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. PMID 17661191.
- ↑ e., R. (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. doi:10.1007/s00436-002-0658-8. PMID 12107463.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Appleton C. C., Forbes A. T. & Demetriades N. T. (2009). "The occurrence, bionomics and potential impacts of the invasive freshwater snail Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in South Africa". Zoologische Mededelingen 83. http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a04
- ↑ (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.
- ↑ Stalazs A. (2002). "List of snail species in Latvia". Last modifications 21 August 2002, accessed 28 March 2011.
- ↑ Correa, A. C.; Escobar, J. S.; Durand, P.; Renaud, F. O.; 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. PMC 3013105. PMID 21143890.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Krull W. H. (1933). "New snail hosts for Fasciola magna (Bassi, 1875) Stiles, 1894". J. Parasitol. 20: 107-108.
- ↑ Echaubard, P.; Little, K.; Pauli, B.; Lesbarrères, D. (2010). Brown, Justin, ed. "Context-Dependent Effects of Ranaviral Infection on Northern Leopard Frog Life History Traits". PLoS ONE 5 (10): e13723. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013723. PMC 2965661. PMID 21060894.
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