Review of the freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda, Thiaridae)
Natural History Research Center and Museum, University of Baghdad, Iraq.
Review Article
GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022, 20(01), 336–339.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscbps.2022.20.1.0303
Publication history:
Received on 22 June 2022; revised on 26 July 2022; accepted on 28 July 2022
Abstract:
Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774), a freshwater snail native to eastern Mediterranean, eastern Africa, southeast Asia, southern Asia, India, and Malaysia, it is an effective invader and is now nearly globally distributed. This snail has been studied with interest because of its rapidly distributed, and because of being can serve as compatible intermediate host for many of trematodes in the world.
We have summarized information from many articles in order to highlight the most important aspects of this invader snail life.
Keywords:
Snail; Melanoides tuberculata ; Gastropoda; Thiaridae
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