Radix luteola

Radix luteola
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Lymnaeidae
Genus:	Radix
Species:	R. luteola
Binomial name
Radix luteola (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms
Lymnaea luteola Lamarck, 1822

Radix luteola is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lymnaeidae.

Placement of this species within the genus Radix was confirmed by Correa et al. (2010). ^[2]

There exist two forms of this species: ^[1]

• Radix luteola f. australis
• Radix luteola f. ovalis

Distribution

Radix luteola is a widespread species in south Asia and southeast Asia. ^[1]

Parasites

Radix luteola is the first intermediate host for the trematodes:

• Schistosoma nasale ^{[3] [1]}
• Schistosoma indicum ^{[3] [1]}
• Schistosoma spindale ^[1]
• Schistosoma suis ^[1]
• Schistosoma incognitum ^[1]
• Fasciola gigantica ^[1]
• Fasciola hepatica ^[1]
• Clinostomum giganticum ^[1]
• Echinostoma revolutum ^[1]
• Orientobilharzia dattae ^[1]
• Echinoparyphium bugulai ^[1]

References

1. Madhyastha A., Dutta J. & Daniel B. A. (2010). Lymnaea luteola. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 8 April 2011.
2. Correa C. A., Escobar J. S., Durand P., Renaud F., David P., Jarne P., Pointier J.-P. & Hurtrez-Boussès S. (2010). "Bridging gaps in the molecular phylogeny of the Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), vectors of Fascioliasis". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 381. doi : 10.1186/1471-2148-10-381 .
3. Liu L. et al. (2010) "The phylogeography of Indoplanorbis exustus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Asia". Parasites & Vectors 3: 57. doi : 10.1186/1756-3305-3-57 .

External links

• Devkota, R.; Brant, S. V.; Loker, E. S. (2016). "A genetically distinct Schistosoma from Radix luteola from Nepal related to Schistosoma turkestanicum: a phylogenetic study of schistosome and snail host". Acta Tropica. 164: 45–53. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.08.015