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Species of gastropod
Gundlachia ticaga
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G. ticaga
Binomial name
Gundlachia ticaga (Marcus & Marcus, 1962)
Gundlachia ticaga is a
species of minute
freshwater snail or
limpet , an
aquatic
gastropod
mollusc in the family
Planorbidae , the ram's horn snails and their allies.
G. ticaga is
endemic to
Argentina , where it was recorded in
Iguazú National Park in the
Misiones Province , and
Brazil , where it is known from the regions of
Rio de Janeiro ,
Goiás ,
Rio Grande do Sul and
São Paulo .
[1]
G. ticaga occurs in polluted and unpolluted streams and rivers in Brazil.
[3] It is also found in irrigation ditches.
[4]
Like several other species of freshwater gastropods, it is the host of a trematode worm, Echinostome cercaria ,
[3] and was found to associate with the roots of the Water Hyacinth species
Eichhornia azurea and
E. crassipes .
[5]
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a
b Pastorino, G.; Darrigan, G. (2011).
"Gundlachia ticaga " .
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2011 : e.T188901A8660013.
doi :
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T188901A8660013.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021 .
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Bouchet, Philippe ;
Rocroi, Jean-Pierre ; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard;
Ponder, Winston ; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "
Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families ".
Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397.
ISBN
3-925919-72-4 .
ISSN
0076-2997 .
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a
b Thiengo, S.C.; Fernandez, M.A.; Boaventura, M.F.; Grault, C.E.; Silva, H.F.R.; Mattos, A.C. & Santos, S.B. (2001).
"Freshwater Snails and Schistosomiasis Mansoni in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: I - Metropolitan Mesoregion" . Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz . 96 (S1): 177–184.
doi :
10.1590/s0074-02762001000900028 . Retrieved 23 April 2014 .
^ Muniz, Cynthia (2007).
Levantamento da malacofauna limnica e aspectos ecológicos de focos de esquistossomose em Ana Dias, Vale do Ribeira - SP (M.Sc. thesis) (in Portuguese).
Universidade de São Paulo . Retrieved 23 April 2014 .
^ Pfeifer, N.T.S.; Pitoni, V.L.L. (2003).
"Seasonal qualitative analysis of limnical mollusc fauna in delta do Jacuí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil" . Biociências . 11 (2). Porto Alegre: 145–158. Archived from
the original (
PDF ) on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2014 .