Parafossarulus manchouricus is a species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
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| Drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Parafossarulus manchouricus. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Bithyniidae |
| Genus: | Parafossarulus |
| Species: | P. manchouricus
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| Binomial name | |
| Parafossarulus manchouricus | |
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Bythinia manchourica Gerstfeldt – Bourguignat, 1860 | |
This species is medically important as a host for the liver fluke Clonorchis sinensis in East Asia.
Subspecies
edit- Parafossarulus manchouricus japonicus (Pilsbry, 1901)
Description
editThe shell has 5.5 whorls.[1] The width of the shell is 6 mm.[1] The height of the shell is 10 mm.[1]
The haploid chromosome number of Parafossarulus manchouricus is n=17.[3][4]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in: Russia (Amur River basin),[5] Japan (Honshū, Kyushu and Shikoku), Korea, Taiwan[6] and China.[7]
The type locality is the Amur River and other rivers in the southern Siberia ("le fleuve Amour et divers cours d'eau de la Sibérie méridionale").[1]
Habitat
editParafossarulus manchouricus lives in shallow ponds and in irrigation channels.[8]
Parasites
editThis species is a first intermediate host for Clonorchis sinensis.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e (in French) Bourguignat J. R. (1860). "Catalogue des mollusques de la famille des paludinées recueillis jusqu'à ce jour en Sibérie et sur la territoire de l'Amour". Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, série 2, 12: 531-537. page 535, plate 24, figs. 11-13.
- ^ World Health Organization (1995). "Control of Foodborne Trematode Infection". WHO Technical Report Series. 849. PDF part 1, PDF part 2. page 125-126.
- ^ Amany A. Tohamy & Shaimaa M. Mohamed (2006). "Chromosomal studies on two Egyptian freshwater snails, Cleopatra and Bithynia (Mollusca-Prosobranchiata)". Arab J. Biotech. 9(1): 17-26. PDF Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Park G. M. (1994). "Cytotaxonomic studies of freshwater Gastropods in Korea". Malacol. Review 27: 23-41.
- ^ Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.
- ^ "Parafossarulus manchouricus japonicus (Pilsbry, 1901)" Archived 2011-04-07 at the Wayback Machine. Bishogai Database, Last modified on 2006/03/23, accessed 1 April 2009
- ^ Clonorchiasis Archived 2013-03-12 at the Wayback Machine. Image Library, accessed 1 April 2009.
- ^ Cho H. C.; Chung P. R.; Lee K. T. (December 1983). "[Distribution Of Medically Important Freshwater Snails And Larval Trematodes From Parafossarulus manchouricus And Semisulcospira libertina Around The Jinyang Lake In Kyongsang-Nam-Do, Korea]". Kisaengch'unghak Chapchi (in Korean). 21 (2): 193–204. doi:10.3347/kjp.1983.21.2.193. PMID 12902649.
- ^ Clonorchis sinensis Archived 2008-03-17 at the Wayback Machine. Web Atlas of Medical Pathology, accessed 1 April 2009.
Further reading
edit- Kim C. H. "Study on some differences between Bithynia misella and Parafossarulus manchouricus". Korean Journal of Parasitology.
- Chun S. K. (June 1964). "[Studies on Parafossarulus manchouricus Bourguigant in Korea]". Kisaengch'unghak Chapchi. 2 (1): 27–34. doi:10.3347/kjp.1964.2.1.27. PMID 12913606.
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