''Pirenella cingulata'' is a

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of medium-sized sea snails or mud snails,

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gastropod

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s in the

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Potamididae ''Potamididae'', common name potamidids (also known as horn snails or mudwhelks) are a family of small to large brackish water snails that live on mud flats, mangroves and similar habitats. They are amphibious gastropod molluscs in the superfa ...

, the horn snails.Bouchet, P. (2016). Pirenella cingulata (Gmelin, 1791). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=870525 on 2016-03-28

Distribution

* Indo-Pacific coast. * Hormozgan Province in

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(2012). "The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species". ''

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Description

Ecology

Parasites of ''Cerithideopsilla cingulata'' include: *

Heterophyidae Heterophyidae is a family of intestinal trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida. Description: "Tegument covered by spines. Oral sucker not armed or armed by cyrcumoral spines. Pharynx presented. Genital synus presented. Ventral and genital suck ...

: ''Cerithideopsilla cingulata'' serves as the first intermediate host of ''

Heterophyes nocens ''Heterophyes nocens'' is a species of trematodes, or fluke worms, in the family Heterophyidae. Distribution This species occurs in: * southwestern Korea in coastal regions * Kōchi Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Chūgoku re ...

''.Chai J.-Y., Shin E.-H., Lee S.-H. & Rim H.-J. (2009). "Foodborne Intestinal Flukes in Southeast Asia". '' The Korean Journal of Parasitology'' 47(Suppl): S69-S102. . *

Echinostomatidae Echinostomatidae is a family of trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida, first described in 1899.Fuhrmann, O. (1928). ''Zweite Klasse des Cladus Platyhelminthes: Trematoda''. Berlin & Leipzig: Kükenthal's Handbuch der Zoologie. Subdivisions Th ...

: ''Cerithideopsilla cingulata'' serves as the first intermediate host of ''

Acanthoparyphium tyosenense ''Acanthoparyphium tyosenense'' is a species of digenetic trematodes in the family Himasthlidae. The first intermediate host of ''Acanthoparyphium tyosenense'' include marine snails ''Laguncula pulchella'', ''Neverita didyma'', '' Pirenella micro ...

''.

References

External links

SeaLifeBase: ''Pirenella cingulata'' info
Potamididae Marine molluscs of Asia Mangrove fauna Fauna of Southeast Asia Fauna of Indonesia Invertebrates of Malaysia Gastropods described in 1791 Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin {{Potamididae-stub