Tricula hortensis
| Tricula hortensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
| Genus: | Tricula |
| Species: | T. hortensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Tricula hortensis Attwood & Brown, 2003[1]
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Tricula hortensis is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.
Distribution
This species of freshwater snail occurs in China.[2]
Genetics
The complete mitochondrial genome of Tricula hortensis was published in 2010.[2] Its length is 15,179 nucleotides and it contains 13 genes.[2]
Parasites
Tricula hortensis is an intermediate host for Schistosoma sinensium.[2]
References
- ^ Attwood S. W., Brown D. S., Meng X. H. & Southgate V. R. (2003). "A new species of Tricula (Pomatiopsidae: Triculinae) from Sichuan Province, PR China: intermediate host of Schistosoma sinensium". Systematics and Biodiversity 1: 109-116.
- ^ a b c d Zhao Q. P., Zhang S. H., Deng Z. R., Jiang M. S. & Nie P. (2010). "Conservation and variation in mitochondrial genomes of gastropods Oncomelania hupensis and Tricula hortensis, intermediate host snails of Schistosoma in China". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57(1): 215-226. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.026.