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Bulinus truncatus
	A lateral view of the shell of Bulinus truncatus truncatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Planorbidae
Genus:	Bulinus
Species:	B. truncatus
Binomial name
	Bulinus truncatus; (Audouin, 1827)
Synonyms
	Bulinus (Bulinus) truncatus (Audoin, 1827) (new combination); Bulinus (Isidora) dybowskii P. Fischer, 1891· accepted, alternate representation; Bulinus (Isidora) truncatus (Audouin, 1827)· accepted, alternate representation; Bulinus (Isidora) truncatus rohlfsi (Clessin, 1886) (junior synonym); Bulinus (Isidora) truncatus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)· accepted, alternate representation; Bulinus dybowskii P. Fischer, 1891; Bulinus guernei (Dautzenberg, 1890) (junior synonym); Bulinus hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1831) (junior synonym); Bulinus rohlfsi (Clessin, 1886); Bulinus sericinus (Jickeli, 1874) (a junior synonym); Bullinus (Isidora) mussolinii Piersanti, 1940 (a junior synonym); Isidora guernei Dautzenberg, 1890 (junior synonym); Isidora hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1831; Isidora sericina Jickeli, 1874 (a junior synonym); Physa (Isidora) vaneyi Germain, 1907; Physa coulboisi Bourguignat, 1888 (junior synonym); Physa mutandaensis Preston, 1913 (junior synonym); Physa rohlfsi Clessin, 1886 (a junior synonym); Physa truncata Audouin, 1827;

Bulinus truncatus is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulininae of the family Bulinidae, the ram's horn snails and the like.^[3]

Subspecies

Bulinus truncatus contortus (Michaud, 1829) (synonym: Physa contorta Michaud, 1829 )
Bulinus truncatus rivularis (Philippi, 1836)
Bulinus truncatus truncatus (Audouin, 1827)

Distribution

Distribution of Bulinus truncatus include:

Africa: Egypt, Morocco Northern Sahara, D.R. Congo, Malawi and Ethiopia.^[4]
As of 2011^[update] in Ferlo Valley, Western Africa: Senegal^[5]
As of 2014^[update] in El Ejido (province of Almeria, southern Andalusia), lagoon of Villena (province of Alicante, northern Catalonia, Spain^[6]
Continental France and Corsica ^[7]^[8]
Continental Greece and Crete^[9]
Italy (Sardinia and Sicily)^[10]
Portugal
Malta^[10]
Middle East (Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and Yemen).

Parasites

This species is an intermediate host for Schistosoma haematobium and Paramphistomum cervi and Paramphistomum microbothrium.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "Synonyms of Physa truncata". AnimalBase, accessed 13 June 2011.
^ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716338 on 2022-01-14
^ Brown, D., 1980. Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis Ltd., London
^ (in French) Sarr A., Kinzelbach R. & Diouf M. (2011, in press). "Diversité spécifique et écologie des mollusques continenatux de la basse vallée du Ferlo (Sénégal). [Specific diversity and ecology of continental molluscs from the Lower Ferlo Valley (Senegal)]". MalaCo 7: 8 pp. PDF Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Martínez-Ortí A., Bargues M. D. & Mas-Coma S. (2015). "Dos nuevas localizaciones para España de Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827) (Gastropoda, Planorbidae), hospedador intermediario de Schistosomiasis urinaria". Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica 13: 25-31. PDF.
^ Germain, L., 1931. Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. Faune de France 22(2): 479–897.
^ Larambergue,M. 1939;Étude de l’autofécondation chez lês gasterópodes pulmonés recherches sur l’aphallie et la fécundation chez Bulinus (Isidora) contortus Michaud. Bulletin Biologique de la France et de la Belgique, 73(1–2): 19–231
^ Schütt, H., 1987. Bulinus truncatus auf Kreta. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Zoologie, 74: 243–245.
^ ^a ^b Giusti, F. Manganelli, G. & Schembri, P. J., 1995. The non–marine molluscs of the Maltese Islands. Monografie XV. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino.

Audouin, V. (1828). Explication sommaire des planches de Mollusques de l'Egypte et de la Syrie publiées par J.C. Savigny. in: Description de l'Egypte ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, publié par les ordres de sa majesté l'empereur Napoléon le grand. 2ème édition, dédiée au roi. Histoire Naturelle, Animaux invertébrés 22: 117–212. Paris: Panckouke.
Preston, H.B. (1913). New species and varieties of terrestrial and fluviatile shells from Equatorial Africa. Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 3 (1): 47–62, 212, pl. 4–6. Bruxelles
Neubert, E. (1998). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial and freshwater molluscs of the Arabian Peninsula with descriptions of new species. Fauna of Arabia. 17: 333–461.