Tricula hortensis

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Tricula hortensis
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T. hortensis
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Tricula hortensis
Attwood & Brown, 2003 [1]

Tricula hortensis is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.

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Distribution

This species of freshwater snail occurs in China. [2]

Genetics

The complete mitochondrial genome of Tricula hortensis was published in 2010. [2] Its length is 15,179 nucleotides and it contains 13 genes. [2]

Parasites

Tricula hortensis is an intermediate host for Schistosoma sinensium . [2]

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References

  1. Attwood S. W., Brown D. S., Meng X. H. & Southgate V. R. (2003). "A new species of Tricula (Pomatiopsidae: Triculinae) from Sichuan Province, PR China: intermediate host of Schistosoma sinensium". Systematics and Biodiversity 1: 109-116.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Zhao Q. P., Zhang S. H., Deng Z. R., Jiang M. S. & Nie P. (2010). "Conservation and variation in mitochondrial genomes of gastropods Oncomelania hupensis and Tricula hortensis, intermediate host snails of Schistosoma in China". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57(1): 215-226. doi : 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.026.