Haloa japonica

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Haloa japonica
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A live individual, head end at the upper left, scale bar 11 mm
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
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.

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Distribution

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

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]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 Fofonoff, PW; Ruiz, GM; Steves, B; Simkanin, C; Carlton, JT (2017). "Haminoea japonica". National Exotic Marine and Estuarine Species Information System . Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  4. 1 2 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.
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