Biomphalaria salinarum
Shell of Biomphalaria salinarum (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Planorbidae
Genus:	Biomphalaria
Species:	B. salinarum
Binomial name
Biomphalaria salinarum (Morelet, 1868)
Synonyms
Planorbis salinarum Morelet, 1868

Biomphalaria salinarum is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

This is a taxon inquirendum.

Distribution

This species is found in Angola and Namibia.

References

• Morelet, A. (1867 [dated 1868]). Voyage du Dr Friederich Welwitsch exécuté par ordre du Gouvernement Portugais dans les royaumes d'Angola et de Benguella (Afrique équinoxiale). Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. Baillière et fils, Paris/London/New York. 1–102, 9 pls, map.
• Brown D.S. (1994). Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance, 2nd edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 607 p.
• Connolly, M. (1939). A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. Annals of the South African Museum 33: 1–660.

External links

• Jarne, P.; Pointier, J.-P.; David, P. (2011). Biosystematics of Biomphalaria spp. with an Emphasis on Biomphalaria glabrata. Biomphalaria Snails and Larval Trematodes. 1-32