Helisoma is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Helisoma
Helisoma anceps
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Tribe: Helisomatini
Genus: Helisoma
Swainson, 1840[1]

Synonym:

  • Carinifex Binney, 1864[2]

Helisoma snails are an intermediate host of Megalodiscus temperatus.[3]

Species

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Species within the genus Helisoma include:

References

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  1. ^ Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London: Longman. p. 337.
  2. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carinifex Binney in Carpenter, 1864". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  3. ^ Bolek, M.G.; Janovy, J. (2008). "Alternative life cycle strategies of Megalodiscus temperatus in tadpoles and metamorphosed anurans". Parasite. 15 (3): 396–401. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.621.1582. doi:10.1051/parasite/2008153396. ISSN 1252-607X. PMID 18814713.