Lymnaea neotropica
| Galba neotropica | |
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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: | Galba |
| Species: | G. neotropica |
| Binomial name | |
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Galba neotropica (Bargues, Artigas, Mera y Sierra, Pointier & Mas-Coma, 2007) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Lymnaea neotropica Bargues, Artigas, Mera y Sierra, Pointier & Mas-Coma, 2007 |
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Lymnaea neotropica Bargues, Artigas, Mera y Sierra, Pointier & Mas-Coma, 2007
Lymnaea viatrix elongata
Lymnaea viatrix var. B elongata d'Orbigny, 1835
Lymnaea viatrix var. elongata
Galba neotropica is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
This species was described as Lymnaea neotropica in 2007. However, it belongs to the Galba/Fossaria group, therefore this species is named Galba neotropica. cf.
Galba neotropica is the vector typically responsible for fascioliasis (liver fluke) livestock infection.
Galba neotropica was originally described from Lima, Peru and surroundings; it appears to be a species restricted to South America, but with a very broad geographical distribution from Argentina in the Southern Cone north to Venezuela.
The distribution of this species includes:
The maximum length of the shell of this species is 10.36 mm.Whorls are convex. The columella is slightly curved and unfolded.
An examination of tentacles, eyes and colour in living specimens has never performed.
In the radula, the first bilateral teeth are bicuspid but occasionally they are tricuspid or rarely quadricuspid. The praeputium/penis sheath length ratio is 1.10-3.90 mm (mean 2.12-2.70 mm).
Two species that have a similar morphology are Galba truncatula and Galba schirazensis. Although several phenotypic characteristics are somewhat helpful for a preliminary specimen classification, a definitive classification of a specimen can only be obtained by the sequencing of at least one of the molecular markers used: ITS-2, ITS-1, 16S and cox1.
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