Biomphalaria choanomphala: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Family
- Planorbidae
- Genus
- Biomphalaria
- Species
- Biomphalaria choanomphala
- Scientific Name
- Biomphalaria choanomphala
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Biomphalaria choanomphala
Biomphalaria choanomphala is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails. Biomphalaria choanomphala has a discoidal, brownish-yellow shell with an approximate shell diameter of 6–10 mm. Biomphalaria choanomphala is a medically important pest, due to it being an intermediate host of the intravascular trematode genus, Schistosoma.
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Sibling Taxa
- Biomphalaria alexandrina
- Biomphalaria andecola
- Biomphalaria angulosa
- Biomphalaria arabica
- Biomphalaria barthi
- Biomphalaria belizensis
- Biomphalaria boucardianus
- Biomphalaria camerunensis
- Biomphalaria choanomphala
- Biomphalaria costata
- Biomphalaria glabrata
- Biomphalaria gracilenta
- Biomphalaria havanensis
- Biomphalaria helophila
- Biomphalaria kuhniana
- Biomphalaria obstructa
- Biomphalaria orbicula
- Biomphalaria peregrina
- Biomphalaria petenensis
- Biomphalaria pfeifferi
- Biomphalaria raimondi
- Biomphalaria rhodesiensis
- Biomphalaria schrammi
- Biomphalaria smithi
- Biomphalaria stanleyi
- Biomphalaria subprona
- Biomphalaria sudanica
- Biomphalaria tenagophila
- Biomphalaria tepicensis
- Biomphalaria thermala