Bulinus tropicus

Bulinus tropicus
	Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Bulinus tropicus
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Planorbidae
Genus:	Bulinus
Species:	B. tropicus
Binomial name
	Bulinus tropicus; (Krauss, 1848)
Synonyms
	Bulinus corneus (Morelet, 1889) (junior synonym); Bulinus diaphanus (F. Krauss, 1848); Bulinus parietalis (Mousson, 1887) (probable synonym); Isidora compta Melvill & Ponsonby, 1903; Physa alluaudi Dautzenberg, 1908 (junior synonym); Physa cornea Morelet, 1889 (junior synonym); Physa craveni Ancey, 1886; Physa cyrtonota Bourguignat, 1856 (junior synonym); Physa diaphana F. Krauss, 1848 (synonym); Physa lirata Craven, 1881 (junior primary homonym of Physa lirata Tristram, 1863: Physa craveni Ancey, 1886 is a replacement name.); Physa rumrutiensis Preston, 1913 (junior synonym); Physa syngenes Preston, 1913; Physa tropica Krauss, 1848;

Bulinus tropicus is a species of a tropical freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bulinidae, the ramshorn snails and their allies.^[3]

Drawing of radular teeth of Bulinus tropicus.

Distribution

Distribution of Bulinus tropicus includes:

^ ^a ^b Curtis B., Jørgensen A., Kristensen T. K., Lange C. N., Stensgaard A-S. & Van Damme D. (2009). Bulinus tropicus. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
^ ^a ^b Brown, D. S.; Curtis, B. A.; Rollinson, D. (1996). "The freshwater snail Bulinus tropicus (Planorbidae) in Namibia, characterised according to chromosome number, enzymes and morphology". Hydrobiologia. 317 (2): 127–139. doi:10.1007/BF00018736.
^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bulinus tropicus (F. Krauss, 1848). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1058684 on 2020-06-27

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