Neotricula

Neotricula
Neotricula aperta on a stone
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Pomatiopsidae
Genus:	Neotricula Davis in Davis, Subba Rao & Hoagland, 1986 [1]
Diversity [2]
At least 5 species

Neotricula is a genus freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Distribution

The distribution of Neotricula includes Hunan (at least 5 species), ^[2] China, Laos (one species), ^[2] Thailand ^[3] and Cambodia. ^[3]

Species

Species within the genus Neotricula include:

• Neotricula aperta (Temcharoen, 1971) ^[1]
• Neotricula burchi (Davis, 1968)

References

1. Davis G. M., Subba Rao N. V. & Hoagland K. E. (1986). "In Search of Tricula (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia): Tricula Defined, and a New Genus Described". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 138(2): 426-442. JSTOR. page 436.
2. Attwood S. W., Fatih F. A. & Upatham E. S. (2008). "DNA-Sequence Variation Among Schistosoma mekongi Populations and Related Taxa; Phylogeography and the Current Distribution of Asian Schistosomiasis". PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2(3): e200. doi : 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000200 .
3. Attwood S. W., Ambu S., Meng X. H., Upatham E. S., Xu F.-S. et al. (2003). "The phylogenetics of triculine snails (Rissooidea: Pomatiopsidae) from south-east Asia and southern China: historical biogeography and the transmission of human schistosomiasis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 69(3): 263-271. doi : 10.1093/mollus/69.3.263.

External links

• Attwood S. W., Upatham E. S., Zhang Y.-P., Yang Z.-Q. & Southgate V. R. (2004). "A DNA-sequence based phylogeny for triculine snails (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae: Triculinae), intermediate hosts for Schistosoma (Trematoda: Digenea): phylogeography and the origin of Neotricula". Journal of Zoology 262(1): 47-56. doi : 10.1017/S0952836903004424.