Biomphalaria salinarum

Biomphalaria salinarum
Shell of Biomphalaria salinarum (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Planorbidae
Genus:	Biomphalaria
Species:	B. salinarum
Binomial name
Biomphalaria salinarum (Morelet, 1868)
Synonyms
Planorbis salinarumMorelet, 1868

Biomphalaria salinarum is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

This is a taxon inquirendum . ^[1]

Distribution

This species is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, and South Africa. ^[2]

References

1. Kristensen, T.K.; Stensgaard, A-S.; Curtis, B. (2010). "Biomphalaria salinarum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010 e.T2809A9483372. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T2809A9483372.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
2. Rapalai, B.L. (2024). "An annotated checklist of molluscs recorded from Botswana". Indago . 41: 15–44. doi:10.5281/zenodo.13132605.

• Morelet, A. (1867 [dated 1868]). Voyage du Dr Friederich Welwitsch exécuté par ordre du Gouvernement Portugais dans les royaumes d'Angola et de Benguella (Afrique équinoxiale). Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. Baillière et fils, Paris/London/New York. 1–102, 9 pls, map.
• Brown D.S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance, 2nd edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 607 p.
• Connolly, M. (1939). A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. Annals of the South African Museum 33: 1–660.

External links

• Jarne, P.; Pointier, J.-P.; David, P. (2011). Biosystematics of Biomphalaria spp. with an Emphasis on Biomphalaria glabrata. Biomphalaria Snails and Larval Trematodes. 1-32