Filopaludina bengalensis

Filopaludina bengalensis

Filopaludina bengalensis shells
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Viviparoidea
Family:	Viviparidae
Genus:	Filopaludina
Species:	F. bengalensis
Binomial name
*Filopaludina bengalensis* (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms^[2]
Bellamya bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822) Bellamya bengalensis f. annandalei (Kobelt, 1909) Bellamya bengalensis f. mandiensis (Kobelt, 1909) Paludina bengalensis Lamarck, 1822 (original combination) Vivipara bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822)

Filopaludina bengalensis, also known as Bellamya bengalensis, is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.

Distribution

This species is found in Iran, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh.

Parasites of Filopaludina bengalensis include trematode Lissemysia ocellata and Lissemysia ovata.^[3]

It is used as a food source for humans.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b Budha, P.B., Dutta, J. & Daniel, B.A. 2010. Bellamya bengalensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T166706A6265508. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T166706A6265508.en. Downloaded on 20 November 2017.
^ Bouchet, P. (2017). Filopaludina bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=827331 on 2017-11-20
^ Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.

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