Pseudosuccinea columella
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Pseudosuccinea columella, the American ribbed fluke snail, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
This snail is an intermediate host for Fasciola hepatica, the liver fluke, a parasite of livestock, especially sheep.[1]
Distribution
Indigenous
Pseudosuccinea columella is native to North America.[2] and Europe.[3] The indigenous distribution of Pseudosuccinea columella reaches from New Brunswick and south Manitoba throughout the eastern US to Central and South America.[4]
The exact type locality for this species is unknown, but it is somewhere in the Philadelphia area, US.[5]
Introduced
This snail has been introduced to Australia[2] and Europe.[3]
The non-indigenous distribution of Pseudosuccinea columella includes:
- western US[4] (distribution map in the US)
- Puerto Rico[5]
- Venezuela[5]
- Brazil:[5] Rio Grande do Sul[6]
- Argentina[5]
- Australia[2][4]
- South Africa[4][7] – since 1942[5]
- Zimbabwe [8][9][10]
- other countries in Africa[5]
- Pacific islands[5]
Europe:
- Switzerland (Basel)[4]
- Austria (Villach)[4]
- Hungary[4]
- Greece (Nómos Florina)[4]
- Menorca[4] (a Spanish island)
- France – in the wild[5]
- Portugal, Madeira Island – in the wild[11]
- Czech Republic as a "hothouse alien"[12]
- Latvia as a "hothouse alien"[13]
Description
The shell quite closely resembles shells in the genus Succinea, which belongs to a different family.
The shell of Pseudosuccinea columella is horny brown, thin, translucent, fragile and very finely striated. The apex is pointed. The shell has 3.5–4 weakly convex whorls with a shallow suture. The last whorl predominates. The aperture is ovate. The upper palatal margin descends steeply. The columellar margin is reflected only at its upper section; the lower columellar margin sharp and straight.[4]
The width of the shell is 8–13 mm. The height of the shell is 15–20 mm.[4]
The animal is dusky with whitish spots. The eyes are small and black and are located at the inner base of the tentacles.[4]
The haploid number of chromosomes is 18 (n=18).[14]
Habitat
In North America, Pseudosuccinea columella lives in stagnant waters, at the edges of lakes, ponds, muddy and sluggish streams, among lily pads and reeds on sticks and mud.[4]
In Europe it occurs predominantly in greenhouses, but also sometimes in outdoor habitats (Austria, Hungary).[4] It needs warm water and does not survive Central European winter temperatures.[4] It is also found above the water on floating leaves of aquatic plants; in northern Greece it was found in a spring near a road.[4]
Parasites
Parasites of Pseudosuccinea columella include:
- In North America, Pseudosuccinea columella is major intermediate host of Fasciola hepatica.[1][15]
- The species also serve as a snail host for Fascioloides magna.[16]
- Also serves as host for Fasciola gigantica [17] & Fasciola nyanzae [18][9]
- Also serves as a host for the cercariae of the trematode Telorchis sp.[19]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [4]
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- ↑ Agudo-Padrón A. I. (14 May 2009). "Recent Terrestrial and Freshwater Molluscs of Rio Grande do Sul State, RS, Southern Brazil Region: A Comprehensive Synthesis and Check List". Visaya April 2009, pages 1–13. PDF Template:Webarchive.
- ↑ Appleton C. C., Forbes A. T. & Demetriades N. T. (2009). "The occurrence, bionomics and potential impacts of the invasive freshwater snail Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in South Africa". Zoologische Mededelingen 83. http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a04 Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Mudavanhu, A., Schols, R., Goossens, E. et al. One Health monitoring reveals invasive freshwater snail species, new records, and undescribed parasite diversity in Zimbabwe. Parasites Vectors 17, 234 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-024-06307-4
- ↑ a b Schols, R., Carolus, H., Hammoud, C. et al. Invasive snails, parasite spillback, and potential parasite spillover drive parasitic diseases of Hippopotamus amphibius in artificial lakes of Zimbabwe. BMC Biol 19, 160 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01093-2
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- ↑ Stalazs A. (2002). "List of snail species in Latvia". Last modifications 21 August 2002, accessed 28 March 2011.
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- ↑ First report of larval stages of Fasciola hepatica in a wild population of Pseudosuccinea columella from Cuba and the Caribbean, Journal of Helminthology, 2011, 85 (1), p. 109–111
- ↑ Krull W. H. (1933). "New snail hosts for Fasciola magna (Bassi, 1875) Stiles, 1894". J. Parasitol. 20: 107–108.
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