Helisoma

Helisoma
Helisoma anceps
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Tribe: Helisomatini
Genus: Helisoma
Swainson, 1840
Synonyms
  • Carinifex W. G. Binney, 1864
  • Helisoma (Helisoma) Swainson, 1840
  • Planorbis (Carinifex) W. G. Binney, 1864
  • Planorbis (Helisoma) Swainson, 1840

Helisoma is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Helisoma snails are an intermediate host of Megalodiscus temperatus.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Helisoma:

References

  1. ↑ Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London: Longman. p. 337.
  2. ↑ Bolek, M.G.; Janovy, J. (2008). "Alternative life cycle strategies of Megalodiscus temperatus in tadpoles and metamorphosed anurans". Parasite. 15 (3): 396–401. doi:10.1051/parasite/2008153396. ISSN 1252-607X. PMID 18814713. Open access icon