some freshwater snails from northern iran

Snails from the northern parts of Iran (Caspian area)

snails from the northern parts of iran (caspian area)

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-Molluscicidal Activity of Different Organic Solvent Latex Extracts of Some Common Euphorbiales against Freshwater Harmful Snails

Molluscicidal activity of different organic solvent extracts of latex of Euphorbia pulcherima and Euphorbia hirta (Family-Euphorbiaceae) against two freshwater harmful snails Lymnaea acuminata and Indoplanorbis exustus has been reported. Both the snails are the intermediate hosts of Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica, which cause endemic fascioliasis in cattle and livestock of Eastern par...

Snails promote methane release from a freshwater lake ecosystem

1 College of Life and Environment Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China 2 Coastal Ecosystems Research Station of Yangtze River Estuary, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China 3 Centre for Watershed Ecology, Institute of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchan...

The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species

Using published records and original data from recent field work and revision of Iranian material of certain species deposited in the collections of the Natural History Museum Basel, the Zoological Museum Berlin, and Natural History Museum Vienna, a checklist of the freshwater gastropod fauna of Iran was compiled. This checklist contains 73 species from 34 genera and 14 families of freshwater s...

Physid snails as sentinels of freshwater nematomorphs.

Freshwater nematomorphs, or gordiids, are parasitic as larvae, but free-living in aquatic environments as adults. Studies based on the collection of adults have reported gordiids to be widespread, but discontinuous in distribution. However, a relatively short adult life span and unknown life history make the detection of adults difficult. An alternative approach to investigate gordiid distribut...