Bulinus globosus | |
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apertural view of the shell of Bulinus globosus | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Superorder: | Hygrophila |
Family: | Planorbidae |
Genus: | Bulinus |
Species: | B. globosus
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Binomial name | |
Bulinus globosus (
Morelet, 1866)
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Synonyms [1] | |
Physa globosus Morelet, 1866 |
Bulinus globosus is a species of a tropical freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails and their allies.
Bulinus globosus is an intermediary host of Schistosoma haematobium, along with Bulinus truncatus. [2] [3]
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