Filopaludina bengalensis | |
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Filopaludina bengalensis shells | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Family: | Viviparidae |
Genus: | Filopaludina |
Species: | F. bengalensis |
Binomial name | |
Filopaludina bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822) | |
Synonyms [2] | |
Bellamya bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822) Contents |
Filopaludina bengalensis, also known as Bellamya bengalensis, is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
This species is found in Iran, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh.
Parasites of Filopaludina bengalensis include trematode Lissemysia ocellata and Lissemysia ovata . [3]
It is used as a food source for humans. [1]
Viviparidae, sometimes known as the river snails or mystery snails, are a family of large aquatic gastropod mollusks, being some of the most widely distributed operculate freshwater snails.
The Chinese mystery snail, black snail, or trapdoor snail, is a large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae. The Japanese variety of this species is black and usually a dark green, moss-like alga covers the shell.
Elimia livescens, common name the liver elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.
Bellamya is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae.
Bithynia siamensis is a species of a freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
Aspidogaster limacoides is a species of the trematodes in the family Aspidogastridae.
Filopaludina is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Viviparidae.
Filopaludina martensi is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
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Filopaludina sumatrensis is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
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Angulyagra polyzonata is a species of a freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.
Bellamya unicolor is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
Heleobia parchappii is a species of small freshwater snail, an operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Cochliopidae.
Plotiopsis balonnensis is a species of freshwater snail, a gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.
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