Bellamya unicolor explained

Bellamya unicolor is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.^[1]

Distribution

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

Ecology

Parasites of Bellamya unicolor include trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.^[2]

References

• 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

• Olivier, G.A. (1804). Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse, fair par ordre du Gouvernement, pendant les six premières années de la République. Tome second, ii pp. + 466 pp. + Errata (1 pp.); Atlas, 2d livraison: vii pp., pl. 18-32. Paris (H. Agasse)
• Jousseaume, F., 1886. Coquilles du Haut-Sénégal. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 11: 471-502
• Rochebrune, A.-T. de. (1882). Sur quelques espèces du Haut-Sénégal. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris, series 7, 6. 33-35
• Van Damme, D. & Lange, C. (2016). Bellamya unicolor. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Notes and References

1. 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
2. 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. en. 3918. 3. 339–96. 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. 25781098. 1175-5334.