Lymnaea luteola
| Radix luteola | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Lymnaeinae |
| Genus: | Radix |
| Species: | R. luteola |
| Binomial name | |
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Radix luteola (Lamarck, 1822) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Lymnaea luteola Lamarck, 1822 |
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Lymnaea luteola Lamarck, 1822
Radix luteola is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lymnaeidae.
Placement of this species within the genus Radix was confirmed by Correa et al. (2010).
There exist two forms of this species:
Radix luteola is a widespread species in south Asia and southeast Asia.
Radix luteola is the first intermediate host for the trematodes:
Devkota, R.; Brant, S. V.; Loker, E. S. (2016). "A genetically distinct Schistosoma from Radix luteola from Nepal related to Schistosoma turkestanicum: a phylogenetic study of schistosome and snail host". Acta Tropica. 164: 45-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.08.015
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