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Species of gastropod

Bellamya unicolor
Bellamya unicolor shell (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Bellamya
Species: B. unicolor
Binomial name
Bellamya unicolor
(Olivier, 1804)
Synonyms
  • Bellamya bellamya Jousseaume, 1886
  • Cyclostoma unicolor Olivier, 1804 (original combination)
  • Vivipara duponti De Rochebrune, 1882 (a junior synonym)
  • Vivipara unicolor (Olivier, 1804)
  • Vivipara unicolor var. lenfanti Germain, 1907
  • Viviparus unicolor (Olivier, 1804) (superseded combination)

Bellamya unicolor is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.

Distribution

This species is found in Africa: Senegal, ...

Ecology

Parasites of Bellamya unicolor include trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.

References

  1. Van Damme, D.; Lange, C. (2016). "Bellamya unicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T98275044A84313812. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T98275044A84313812.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bellamya unicolor (Olivier, 1804). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1290761 on 2020-06-09
  3. Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.
  • Germain L. (1907). Les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de l'Afrique centrale française. pp. 457–617, in: A. Chevalier, L'Afrique centrale française. Augustin Challamel, Paris.
  • Brown D.S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance, 2nd edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 607 p. page(s): 53, figs. 19a-c
  • van Damme D. (1984). The freshwater mollusca of Northern Africa: Distribution, biogeography and paleoecology. Developments in Hydrobiology. 25: 1-163.

External links

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Taxon identifiers
Bellamya unicolor


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