Biomphalaria smithi
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Biomphalaria |
| Species: | B. smithi
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Biomphalaria smithi is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Biomphalaria smithi is the type species of the genus Biomphalaria.[1] The type material is stored in the Natural History Museum.[1]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]The type locality is the Lake Albert,[1] Uganda.
Shell description
[edit | edit source]The width of the shell is from 7.5 mm to 9.5. The height of the shell is 4 mm.[1] The height of the aperture is 5 mm. The width of the aperture is 4.5 mm.[1]
Phylogeny
[edit | edit source]A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of species in the genus Biomphalaria:[2]
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c d e f Preston H. B. (1910) "Addition to the non-Marine Molluscan Fauna of British and German East Africa and Lake Albert Edward". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including zoology, botany, and geology 6(8 series, 35): 526-. 535, plate IX figure 26, 26A.
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Baker F. C. (1945) The molluscan family Planorbidae. Urbana, The University of Illinois Press, page 89
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