Biomphalaria smithi is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Biomphalaria smithi is the type species of the genus Biomphalaria.[1] The type material is stored in the Natural History Museum.[1]
Distribution
The type locality is the Lake Albert,[1] Uganda.
Shell description
The width of the shell is from 7.5 mm to 9.5. The height of the shell is 4 mm.[1] The height of the aperture is 5 mm. The width of the aperture is 4.5 mm.[1]
Phylogeny
A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of species in the genus Biomphalaria:[2]
Biomphalaria Biomphalaria stanleyi
Biomphalaria pfeifferi
Biomphalaria camerunensis
Nilotic species complex
Biomphalaria sudanica
Biomphalaria choanomphala
Biomphalaria alexandrina
Biomphalaria smithi
Biomphalaria glabrata
Biomphalaria straminea complex
Biomphalaria kuhniana
Biomphalaria straminea
Biomphalaria straminea
Biomphalaria intermedia
Biomphalaria amazonica
Biomphalaria sp.
Biomphalaria tenagophila
Biomphalaria occidentalis
Biomphalaria prona
Biomphalaria andecola
Biomphalaria sp. (? Biomphalaria havanensis)
Biomphalaria sp. (? Biomphalaria havanensis)
Biomphalaria temascalensis
Biomphalaria obstructa
Biomphalaria helophila
Biomphalaria peregrina
Biomphalaria schrammi
References
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^ a b c d e f Preston H. B. (1910) "Addition to the non-Marine Molluscan Fauna of British and German East Africa and Lake Albert Edward". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including zoology, botany, and geology 6(8 series, 35): 526-. 535, plate IX figure 26, 26A.
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^ Dejong, R. J.; Morgan, J. A.; Paraense, W. L.; Pointier, J. P.; Amarista, M.; Ayeh-Kumi, P. F.; Babiker, A.; Barbosa, C. S.; Brémond, P.; Pedro Canese, A.; De Souza, C. P.; Dominguez, C.; File, S.; Gutierrez, A.; Incani, R. N.; Kawano, T.; Kazibwe, F.; Kpikpi, J.; Lwambo, N. J.; Mimpfoundi, R.; Njiokou, F.; Noël Poda, J.; Sene, M.; Velásquez, L. E.; Yong, M.; Adema, C. M.; Hofkin, B. V.; Mkoji, G. M.; Loker, E. S. (2001). "Evolutionary relationships and biogeography of Biomphalaria (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) with implications regarding its role as host of the human bloodfluke, Schistosoma mansoni". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 18 (12): 2225–2239. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003769. PMID 11719572.
