| Neotricula aperta | |
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| apertural view of a shell of Neotricula aperta | |
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| Neotricula aperta on a stone | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
| Genus: | Neotricula |
| Species: | N. aperta
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| Binomial name | |
| Neotricula aperta (Temcharoen, 1971)[1]
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| Synonyms | |
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Lithoglyphopsis aperta | |
Neotricula aperta is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.
The first record of the transmission of S. mekongi by Neotricula aperta (Tricula aperta) was reported in 1973 using sentinel mice on Khong Island, Laos.[2]
This species serves as a sole intermediate host for the fluke Schistosoma mekongi, that causes Mekong schistosomiasis.[3][4]
- ^ Temcharoen P. (1971). "'New aquatic molluscs from Laos". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 101: 91-109.
- ^ (Kitikoon, V., Curt R. Schneider, Santasiri Sornmani, Chamlong Harinsuta, and Guy R. Lanza. 1973. Southeast Asian J. Trop.Med.Pub.Hlth, Vol. 4 (3)
- ^ Attwood S. W., Fatih F. A. & Upatham E. S. (2008). "DNA-Sequence Variation Among Schistosoma mekongi Populations and Related Taxa; Phylogeography and the Current Distribution of Asian Schistosomiasis". PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2(3): e200. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000200.
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