Omphiscola glabra

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Omphiscola glabra
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A live individual of Omphiscola glabra on a paper grid, scale bar 1 cm
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Lymnaeidae
Genus: Omphiscola
Species:
O. glabra
Binomial name
Omphiscola glabra
(Müller, 1774) [1]
Synonyms
  • Buccinum glabrum [2]
  • Lymnaea glabra [2]
  • Stagnicola glaber [2]

Omphiscola glabra, commonly known as the pond mud snail, [3] is a species of small to medium-size, air-breathing, freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae. [4] Omphiscola glabra is the type species of the genus Omphiscola. [5]

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Distribution

This European snail can be found from southern Scandinavia (61° N) to southern Spain. [6]

The distribution of Omphiscola glabra is very scattered and rare. [6] It is seriously threatened, and has become locally extinct in many places. [6] It is threatened by continuing habitat destruction because of drainage and intensive farming. [6] Acriculturally induced eutrophication is also a threat. Omphiscola glabra has disappeared widely from urbanized areas such as London. [6]

Drawing of the shell. Omphiscola glabra shell.png
Drawing of the shell.

Shell description

The shell is strongly cylindrical, horny, often with a brownish or blackish surface, the apex is blunt, 7–8 moderately convex whorls, with last whorl being twice as high as the narrow aperture, and with aperture often with white lip. [6]

The height of the shell is 9–12 mm, [6] up to 15 mm [8] or up to 20 mm. [6] The width of the shell is 3–4 mm, [6] up to 5.5 mm. [8]

Five shells of Omphiscola glabra Omphiscola glabra shell.jpg
Five shells of Omphiscola glabra

Habitat

This snail lives in places such as swampy meadows and ditches. [9]

Omphiscola glabra is said to occur in small areas of standing water that have a lot of vegetation such as swamps, and also in standing forest waters with leaf litter, often in water with organic iron contents and low calcium contents. [6] [ clarification needed ]

In Central France, the populations of Omphiscola glabra are currently declining because its habitat is threatened by modern agricultural practices. [10]

In Britain however, this species occurs in small standing waters that are low in nutrients, with poor aquatic flora, often in waters drying out periodically. [6] They usually do not occur in habitats with high molluscan diversity, and usually in habitats on uncultivated land. [6] They are calciphile and have a pH tolerance of 5.4–8.8. [6] [ clarification needed ]

Reproduction begins in May. [6] Juveniles hatch after 15–25 days. [6] Omphiscola glabra has two generations per year. [6]

Parasites

Omphiscola glabra can serve as an intermediate host for several digenean trematodes. In France, Omphiscola glabra is naturally infected with Fasciola hepatica , [11] Calicophoron daubneyi , [12] and Haplometra cylindracea ; [13] in all, seven digenean species parasitize O. glabra in the Brenne Regional Natural Park, central France. [14] Moreover, a report suggests that the species is also susceptible to Fascioloides magna infection. [15]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference. [6]

  1. ↑ Müller O. F. (1774). Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. pp. I-XXXVI [= 1–36], 1–214, [1–10]. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).
  2. 1 2 3 "Mud Pond Snail Omphiscola glabra". BioLib. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  3. ↑ Joanna Lindsay; Laura Larkin (Spring 2020). "Marvellous mud snails". Environmental Education . 123: 18–19. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  4. ↑ Glöer P. (2002). Überfamilie Lymnaeoidea Rafinesque 1815. Familie Lymnaeidae Lamarck 1812. In: Glöer P. (ed.) Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord-und Mitteleuropas. Bestimmungschlüssel, Lebensweise, Verbreitung. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 73. Conchbooks, Hackenheim, pp. 200–232.
  5. ↑ "Species in genus Omphiscola". AnimalBase, accessed 31 July 2010.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Species summary for Omphiscola glabra". AnimalBase. Last modified 24-02-2009, accessed 31 July 2010.
  7. ↑ Anderson R. (2009). "Value of species datasets as baselines (non-marine Mollusca)" Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine . accessed 31 July 2010.
  8. 1 2 (in Polish) Jackiewicz M. (2000). Blotniarky Europy (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Lymnaeidae). Wydawnictwo Kontekst, Poznań. 115 pp.
  9. ↑ Rondelaud, D.; Vignoles, P.; Dreyfuss, G. (2009). "First field observations on the aestivation of Omphiscola glabra (Gastropoda, Lymnaeida) uninfected or infected with Fasciola hepatica in central France". Annales de Limnologie – International Journal of Limnology. 39 (2): 129–133. doi: 10.1051/limn/2003010 . ISSN   0003-4088.
  10. ↑ Dreyfuss, Gilles; Vignoles, Philippe; Rondelaud, Daniel (2016). "Current decline in the number and size of Galba truncatula and Omphiscola glabra populations, intermediate hosts of Fasciola hepatica, on the acidic soils of Central France". Parasite. 23: 46. doi:10.1051/parasite/2016055. PMC   5086825 . PMID   27774956. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  11. ↑ Dreyfuss, G.; Vignoles, P.; Rondelaud, D. (2003). "Natural infections of Omphiscola glabra (Lymnaeidae) with Fasciola hepatica in central France". Parasitology Research. 91 (6): 458–461. doi:10.1007/s00436-003-0892-8. ISSN   0932-0113. PMID   14564511. S2CID   6809011.
  12. ↑ Abrous, M.; Rondelaud, D.; Dreyfuss, G.; Kabaret, J. (1999). "Infection of Lymnaea truncatula and Lymnaea glabra by Fasciola hepatica and Paramphistomum daubneyi in farms of central France". Vet. Res. 30 (1): 113–118. PMID   10081118.
  13. ↑ Goumghar, M. D.; Abrous, M.; Ferdonnet, D.; Dreyfuss, G.; Rondelaud, D. (2000). "Prevalence of Haplometra cylindracea infection in three species of Lymnaea snails in central France". Parasitol. Res. 86 (4): 337–339. doi:10.1007/s004360050054. PMID   10780746. S2CID   31442019.
  14. ↑ Rondelaud, Daniel; Vignoles, Philippe; Dreyfuss, Gilles (2015). "Larval trematode infections in Lymnaea glabra populations living in the Brenne Regional Natural Park, central France". Parasite. 22: 38. doi:10.1051/parasite/2015038. ISSN   1776-1042. PMC   4686325 . PMID   26692260. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  15. ↑ Rondelaud, D.; Novobilský, A.; Vignoles, P.; Treuil, P.; Koudela, B.; Dreyfuss, G. (2006). "First studies on the susceptibility of Omphiscola glabra (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) from central France to Fascioloides magna". Parasitol. Res. 98 (4): 299–303. doi:10.1007/s00436-005-0067-x. PMID   16362339. S2CID   23827214.


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