Haloa japonica

Haloa japonica
A live individual, head end at the upper left, scale bar 11 mm
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Cephalaspidea
Family:	Haminoeidae
Genus:	Haloa
Species:	H. japonica
Binomial name
Haloa japonica (Pilsbry, 1895)
Synonyms [1]
Haminoea callidegenita(Gibson & Chia, 1989) Haminoea japonicaPilsbry, 1895

Haloa japonica, common name the Japanese bubble snail, is a species of sea snail or bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Haminoeidae, one of the families of bubble snails.

Distribution

The species is found in the Pacific Ocean, Mediterranean and North Sea:

• Japan ^{[2] [3]}
• Korea ^[2]
• Hong Kong ^[3]
• The Philippines ^[2]
• Thailand^{[ citation needed ]}
• Mediterranean Sea including Sète and Étang de Berre, France ^[1]
• California and Washington, USA ^[4]
• Southern British Columbia, Canada
• Taiwan
• Netherlands (incl. Zeeland)

Description

Their shells have length around 11 mm and width around 8 mm. ^[5]

Parasites

The parasites of Haloa japonica include an avian schistosome, which has been implicated in human cercarial dermatitis in San Francisco Bay, California. ^[4]

References

1. Gofas, S. (2009). Haminoea japonica Pilsbry, 1895. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=238369 on 2010-09-14
2. 中国科学院动物研究所. "Haloa rotundata (A. Adams, 1850)". 《中国动物物种编目数据库》 (in Simplified Chinese). 中国科学院微生物研究所. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
3. Fofonoff, PW; Ruiz, GM; Steves, B; Simkanin, C; Carlton, JT (2017). "Haminoea japonica". National Exotic Marine and Estuarine Species Information System . Archived from the original on 2017-11-12. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
4. Brant S. V., Cohen A. N., James D., Hui L., Hom A. & Loker E. S. (2010) "Cercarial dermatitis transmitted by exotic marine snail". Emerging Infectious Diseases 16(9): 1357-1365. doi : 10.3201/eid1609.091664 HTM, PDF.
5. "Haminoea japonica". Fauna of China (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on 2017-12-12. Retrieved 2017-12-12.

Further reading

• Gosliner T. M. & Behrens D. W. (2006). "Anatomy of an invasion: systematics and distribution of the introduced opisthobranch snail, Haminoea japonica Pilsbry, 1895 (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Haminoeidae)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 57: 1003–1010.
• Hanson D., Cooke S., Hirano Y., Malaquias M.A. E., Crocetta F. & Valdés Á. (2013) "Slipping through the Cracks: The Taxonomic Impediment Conceals the Origin and Dispersal of Haminoea japonica, an Invasive Species with Impacts to Human Health". PLoS ONE 8(10): e77457. doi : 10.1371/journal.pone.0077457