Intha umbilicalis explained

Intha umbilicalis is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod in the ram's horn snail family, Planorbidae.

Distribution

This species is found in:

• Sri Lanka
• India (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Jammu-Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal)
• Nepal
• Bangladesh
• China
• Taiwan
• Myanmar
• Cambodia
• Laos
• Thailand
• Vietnam
• Malaysia
• Indonesia
• Philippines
• Papua New Guinea

Ecology

Parasites of Intha umbilicalis include:

• Fasciolopsis buski
• Paragonimus westermani
• Gastrodiscoides hominis
• Cercaria helicorbisi

External links

• Brandt R. A. M. (1974). "The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 105(1-4): 1-423.
• Subba Rao N. V. (1989). Handbook: Freshwater Molluscs of India. Zoological Survey of India, Culcutta.