Koreoleptoxis amurensis
| Koreoleptoxis amurensis | |
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| Koreoleptoxis amurensis shell | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Semisulcospiridae |
| Genus: | Koreoleptoxis |
| Species: | K. amurensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Koreoleptoxis amurensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859)[1]
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| Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Melania amurensis Gerstfeldt, 1859 | |
Koreoleptoxis amurensis is a
mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae
.
Taxonomy
Strong et al. (2009)[4] and Kantor et al. (2010) classified this species in the genus "Parajuga" Prozorova et Starobogatov, 2003; however Parajuga is not available name.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in rivers of the
Amur River basin.[3]
The
type locality is "im Amur, im mittleren Laufe und einem Theile des unteren dieses Stromes".[3]
Ecology
Koreoleptoxis amurensis serves as the first
intermediate host for Clonorchis sinensis in China[5] and as the first intermediate host of Paragonimus westermani.[6]
References
- ^ (in German) Gerstfeldt G. (1859). "Ueber Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken Sibiriens und Amur-Gebietes". Mémoires des Savants étrangers 9: 507-548. pages 512-514, figs. 14-24.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2017). Koreoleptoxis amurensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=999800 on 2017-07-07
- ^ a b c d Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.
- PMID 27384714.
- ^ World Health Organization (1995). Control of Foodborne Trematode Infection. WHO Technical Report Series. 849. PDF part 1, PDF part 2. page 125-126.
External links
- Köhler, Frank (2017-06-16). "Against the odds of unusual mtDNA inheritance, introgressive hybridisation and phenotypic plasticity: systematic revision of Korean freshwater gastropods (Semisulcospiridae, Cerithioidea)". Invertebrate Systematics. 31 (3): 249–268. S2CID 90588497. Retrieved 2017-07-07.