Bulinus

Scientific classification
| Kingdom:  | Animalia

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Phylum:  | Mollusca

Class:  | Gastropoda

Order:  | Pulmonata

Family:  | Planorbidae

Subfamily:  | Bulininae

Genus:  | Bulinus
Müller, 1781

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## Contents

* 1 Overviwew
* 2 Range of distriution
* 3 List of species
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Overviwew

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Bulinus is a genus of small tropical fresh-water snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks.

This genus is medically important because several species of Bulinus function as intermediate hosts for the schistosomiasis blood fluke.

## Range of distriution

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These snails are widespread in Africa and the Middle East.[1]

## List of species

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The genus includes 37 species:

* Bulinus africanus
* Bulinus bavayi
* Bulinus camerunensis
* Bulinus cernicus
* Bulinus crystallinus
* Bulinus forskalii
* Bulinus globosus
* Bulinus liratus
* Bulinus nasutus
* Bulinus nyassanus
* Bulinus obtusispira
* Bulinus scalaris
* Bulinus senegalensis
* Bulinus transversalis
* Bulinus tropicus
* Bulinus truncatus
* Bulinus ugandae
* Bulinus umbilicatus
* Bulinus wrighti
* ...

## References

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1. ↑ Aslak Jørgensen, Louise V. Gersdorff Jørgensen, Thomas K. Kristensen, Henry Madsen, J. Russell Stothard (2007) Molecular phylogenetic investigations of Bulinus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Lake Malawi with comments on the topological incongruence between DNA loci. - Zoologica Scripta 36 (6), 577–585. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00298.x

## External links

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* http://memorias.ioc.fiocruz.br/93sup1/15cob.html

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