Neotricula is a genus freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.
| Neotricula | |
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| Neotricula aperta on a stone | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
| Genus: | Neotricula Davis in Davis, Subba Rao & Hoagland, 1986[1] |
| Diversity[2] | |
| At least 5 species | |
Distribution edit
The distribution of Neotricula includes Hunan (at least 5 species),[2] China, Laos (one species),[2] Thailand[3] and Cambodia.[3]
Species edit
Species within the genus Neotricula include:
- Neotricula aperta (Temcharoen, 1971)[1]
- Neotricula burchi (Davis, 1968)
References edit
- ^ a b Davis G. M., Subba Rao N. V. & Hoagland K. E. (1986). "In Search of Tricula (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia): Tricula Defined, and a New Genus Described". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 138(2): 426-442. JSTOR. page 436.
- ^ a b c Attwood S. W., Fatih F. A. & Upatham E. S. (2008). "DNA-Sequence Variation Among Schistosoma mekongi Populations and Related Taxa; Phylogeography and the Current Distribution of Asian Schistosomiasis". PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2(3): e200. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000200.
- ^ a b Attwood S. W., Ambu S., Meng X. H., Upatham E. S., Xu F.-S. et al. (2003). "The phylogenetics of triculine snails (Rissooidea: Pomatiopsidae) from south-east Asia and southern China: historical biogeography and the transmission of human schistosomiasis. Journal of Molluscan Studies 69(3): 263-271. doi:10.1093/mollus/69.3.263.
External links edit
- Attwood S. W., Upatham E. S., Zhang Y.-P., Yang Z.-Q. & Southgate V. R. (2004). "A DNA-sequence based phylogeny for triculine snails (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae: Triculinae), intermediate hosts for Schistosoma (Trematoda: Digenea): phylogeography and the origin of Neotricula". Journal of Zoology 262(1): 47-56. doi:10.1017/S0952836903004424.
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