Biomphalaria
{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Biomphalaria
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Mollusca
| classis = Gastropoda
| ordo = Basommatophora
| familia = Planorbidae
| genus = Biomphalaria
| genus_authority = Preston, 1910
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
Biomphalaria glabrata
Biomphalaria obstructa
Biomphalaria amazonica
Biomphalaria pfeifferi
Biomphalaria tenagophila
Biomphalaria havanensis
Biomphalaria straminea
Biomphalaria alexandrina
Biomphalaria subprona
}}
Biomphalaria is a genus of snailthat serves as a natural host for the parasitic blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni. The fluke can cross from snails into mammals, typically by ingestion of the fluke's eggs while swimming in infested waters; in humans it causes the disease schistosomiasis.
Other flukes which parasitize snails include Schistosoma japonicum, which parasitizes snails in the genus Oncomelania, and Schistosoma mekongi, which parasitizes snails in the genus Tricula.
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It uses material from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomphalaria Wikipedia article Biomphalaria.
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