Koreoleptoxis amurensis

Koreoleptoxis amurensis
Koreoleptoxis amurensis shell
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Semisulcospiridae
Genus:	Koreoleptoxis
Species:	K. amurensis
Binomial name
Koreoleptoxis amurensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859) [1]
Synonyms [2] [3]
Melania amurensis Gerstfeldt, 1859 Juga amurensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859) “Parajuga” amurensis Semisulcospira amurensis Semisulcospira cancellata sensu Shadin, 1952, part. non Benson, 1833

Koreoleptoxis amurensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae.

Taxonomy

Strong et al. (2009) ^[4] and Kantor et al. (2010) classified this species in the genus " Parajuga " Prozorova et Starobogatov, 2003; however Parajuga is not available name. ^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in rivers of the Amur River basin. ^[3]

The type locality is "im Amur, im mittleren Laufe und einem Theile des unteren dieses Stromes". ^[3]

Ecology

Koreoleptoxis amurensis serves as the first intermediate host for Clonorchis sinensis in China ^[5] and as the first intermediate host of Paragonimus westermani . ^[6]

References

1. (in German) Gerstfeldt G. (1859). "Ueber Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken Sibiriens und Amur-Gebietes". Mémoires des Savants étrangers 9: 507-548. pages 512-514, figs. 14-24.
2. Bouchet, P. (2017). Koreoleptoxis amurensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=999800 on 2017-07-07
3. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.
4. Strong E. & Köhler F. (2009). "Morphological and molecular analysis of "Melania" jacqueti Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906: from anonymous orphan to critical basal offshoot of the Semisulcospiridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea)". Zoologica Scripta 38(5): 483-502. doi : 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00385.x
5. Tang, Ze-Li; Huang, Yan; Yu, Xin-Bing (2016-07-06). "Current status and perspectives of Clonorchis sinensis and clonorchiasis: epidemiology, pathogenesis, omics, prevention and control". Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 5 (1): 71. doi: 10.1186/s40249-016-0166-1 . ISSN   2049-9957. PMC   4933995 . PMID   27384714.
6. World Health Organization (1995). Control of Foodborne Trematode Infection. WHO Technical Report Series. 849. PDF part 1, PDF part 2. page 125-126.

External links

• Köhler, Frank (2017-06-16). "Against the odds of unusual mtDNA inheritance, introgressive hybridisation and phenotypic plasticity: systematic revision of Korean freshwater gastropods (Semisulcospiridae, Cerithioidea)" . Invertebrate Systematics. 31 (3): 249–268. doi:10.1071/IS16077. ISSN   1447-2600. S2CID   90588497 . Retrieved 2017-07-07.