Preliminary survey of the planorbidic fauna in Santa Catarina Island, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
1990
K S Espindola, and
P R Hofmann, and
M M Machado
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brasil.
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Description
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D001938
Brazil
A country located on the eastern coast of South America, located between Colombia and Peru, that borders the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, on the south by Uruguay, and on the west by Argentina. The capital is Brasilia.
D004199
Disease Vectors
Invertebrates or non-human vertebrates which transmit infective organisms from one host to another.
Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.
Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D001700
Biomphalaria
A genus of planorbid freshwater snails, species of which are intermediate hosts of Schistosoma mansoni.