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Heleobia castellanosae

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Heleobia castellanosae
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H. castellanosae
Binomial name
Heleobia castellanosae
(Gaillard, 1974)
Synonyms
  • Littoridina castellanosae Gaillard, 1974

Heleobia castellanosae is a species of small freshwater snail, an operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Cochliopidae.

The specific name castellanosae is in honour of Argentinian malacologist Zulma Judith Ageitos de Castellanos.

Distribution

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Argentina.[1]

Ecology

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Parasites of Heleobia castellanosae include trematodes Lobatostoma jungwirthi and Lobatostoma pacificum.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Rumi A., Gregoric D. E. G., Núñez V. & Darrigran G. A. (2008). "Malacología Latinoamericana. Moluscos de agua dulce de Argentina". Revista de Biología Tropical 56(1): 77-111. HTM.
  2. ^ Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.