Heleobia castellanosae

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Heleobia castellanosae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cochliopidae
Genus: Heleobia
Species:
H. castellanosae
Binomial name
Heleobia castellanosae
(Gaillard, 1974)
Synonyms
  • Littoridina castellanosaeGaillard, 1974

Heleobia castellanosae is a species of small freshwater snail, an operculate gastropod mollusc in the family Cochliopidae.

Contents

The specific name castellanosae is in honour of Argentinian malacologist Zulma Judith Ageitos de Castellanos.

Distribution

Argentina. [1]

Ecology

Parasites of Heleobia castellanosae include trematodes Lobatostoma jungwirthi and Lobatostoma pacificum . [2]

References

  1. Rumi A., Gregoric D. E. G., Núñez V. & Darrigran G. A. (2008). "Malacología Latinoamericana. Moluscos de agua dulce de Argentina". Revista de Biología Tropical 56(1): 77-111. HTM.
  2. Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World" . Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   25781098.