Biomphalaria salinarum is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
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| Shell of Biomphalaria salinarum (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Biomphalaria |
| Species: | B. salinarum
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| Binomial name | |
| Biomphalaria salinarum (Morelet, 1868)
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This is a taxon inquirendum.[1]
Distribution
editThis species is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, and South Africa.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Kristensen, T.K.; Stensgaard, A-S.; Curtis, B. (2010). "Biomphalaria salinarum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T2809A9483372. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T2809A9483372.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Rapalai, B.L. (2024). "An annotated checklist of molluscs recorded from Botswana". Indago. 41: 15–44. doi:10.5281/zenodo.13132605.
- Morelet, A. (1867 [dated 1868]). Voyage du Dr Friederich Welwitsch exécuté par ordre du Gouvernement Portugais dans les royaumes d'Angola et de Benguella (Afrique équinoxiale). Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. Baillière et fils, Paris/London/New York. 1–102, 9 pls, map.
- Brown D.S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance, 2nd edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 607 p.
- Connolly, M. (1939). A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. Annals of the South African Museum 33: 1–660.
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