The freshwater leech Helobdella austinensis can eat its weight in snails every day, suggesting that leeches could be used to control freshwater snail populations — and the host of diseases they ...

A trematode has a very specific life cycle, leeching onto three hosts that include a freshwater snail, a fish and then a bird or human who ate the infected fish. The parasite was probably carried ...

Fishes, snails, plants, subterranean salamanders and more, the Mediterranean Basin Hotspot is globally important for its freshwater biodiversity. This vital habitat is of course vital for human life ...

Researchers in Coahuila, Mexico have discovered the world’s smallest freshwater snail, officially named Microphreatus saltillensis, in Los Chorros park.

For Immediate Release, December 28, 2017 Contact: Tierra Curry, (928) 522-3681, tcurry@biologicaldiversity.org Georgia Snail Is First Species Declared Extinct Under Trump Administration Becomes Ninth ...

They put the tiny animals in an aquarium and observed them for a year. Studying the snails, researchers realized they’d discovered a new species: Fenouilia undata, or the wavy freshwater snail.

A group of international scientists has rediscovered a sessile freshwater snail endemic to China after it had disappeared for more than 100 years. This was reported by The Xinhua News Agency. The ...

So far, wavy freshwater snails have only been found in the Longjiang River in Guangxi Province, the study said. Guangxi Province is in southern China, along the border with Vietnam.