Bithynia fuchsiana

Bithynia fuchsiana
Live Bithynia fuchsiana
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Bithyniidae
Genus:	Bithynia
Species:	B. fuchsiana
Binomial name
Bithynia fuchsiana (Möllendorff, 1888)

Bithynia fuchsiana is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum. It an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

Distribution

Distribution of this species includes:

• southern and eastern China ^{[2] [1]}
• Taiwan ^[1]
• the Red River delta, Vietnam ^{[3] [1]}

Ecology

Bithynia fuchsiana inhabits lentic habitats such as lakes, rice fields, ponds and others. ^[1] It serves as the first intermediate host for the trematode Clonorchis sinensis . ^[2]

References

1. Madhyastha, A. (2012). "Bithynia fuchsiana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012 e.T166293A1128252. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T166293A1128252.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. World Health Organization (1995). Control of Foodborne Trematode Infection. WHO Technical Report Series. 849. PDF part 1, PDF part 2. page 125.
3. Dung, Bui Thi; Madsen, Henry; The, Dang Tat (2010). "Distribution of freshwater snails in family-based VAC ponds and associated waterbodies with special reference to intermediate hosts of fish-borne zoonotic trematodes in Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam". Acta Tropica. 116 (1): 15–23. doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.04.016. PMID   20457118..