Tricula bollingi

Tricula bollingi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily: Triculinae
Tribe: Triculuni
Genus: Tricula
Species: T. bollingi
Binomial name
Tricula bollingi

Tricula bollingi is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Distribution

This species is common in Thailand.

Parasites

Tricula bollingi is an intermediate host for Schistosoma ovuncatum.[1]

References

  1. Attwood, S. W.; Panasoponkul, C.; Upatham, E. S.; Meng, X. H.; Southgate, V. R. (2002). "Schistosoma ovuncatum n. sp. (Digenea: Schistosomatidae) from northwest Thailand and the historical biogeography of Southeast Asian Schistosoma Weinland, 1858". Systematic Parasitology. 51 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1023/A:1012988516995. PMID 11721191.


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