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Oncomelania
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: not available

, Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria  Acoelomorpha  Orthonectida  Rhombozoa  Myxozoa  Superphylum Deuterostomia     Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Classes Caudofoveata Aplacophora Polyplacophora - Chitons Monoplacophora Bivalvia - Bivalves Scaphopoda - Tusk shells Gastropoda - Snails and Slugs Cephalopoda - Squids, Octopuses, etc. ... Subclass Subclass Eogastropoda     Patellogastropoda Subclass Orthogastropoda   Superorder Cocculiniformia   Superorder Hot Vent Taxa     Neomphaolida   Superorder Vetigastropoda   Superorder Neritaemorphi     Neritopsina   Superorder Caenogastropoda     Architaenioglossa     Sorbeoconcha   Superorder Heterobranchia     Heterostropha     Opisthobranchia     Pulmonata The gastropods, or univalves, are the largest and most successful class of mollusks, with 60,000-75,000 species, and second largest class... Superorders Cocculiniformia Hot Vent taxa Vetigastropoda Neritaemorphi Caenogastropoda Heterobranchia In their work, which has become a standard reference in the field, Ponder and Lindberg (1997) showed that the Orthogastropoda is one of two subclasses of the Gastropoda the class of molluscs, the other subclass being the Eogastropoda. ... Caenogastropoda Categories: Animal stubs ... Suborders Discopoda Murchisoniina Hypsogastropoda Sorbeoconcha is an order within the gastropod superorder Caenogastropoda. ... Hypsogastropoda is a suborder within the gastropod order Sorbeoconcha. ...

Genera

Genus Oncomelania

Oncomelania is a genus of snail. Various species of oncomelania are involved in the life cycle of the schistosomiasis blood fluke parasite and the paragonimus lung fluke parasites. Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica) The name snail applies to most members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells. ... Skin vesicles created by the penetration of Schistosoma. ... A parasite is an organism that lives in or on the living tissue of a host organism at the expense of it. ...


Species in the oncomelania genus include:

Oncomelania hupensis
Oncomelania hupensis hupensis
Oncomelania nosophora

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Aggressive campaigns to control schistosomiasis among the peasants in Hunan Province and elsewhere in South China were a cornerstone of Chairman Mao's "patriotic health campaigns" (3).
During the 1950s and 1960s, entire populations in schistosomiasis-endemic areas were mobilized against Oncomelania snails and recruited to drain rivers and ditches; millions of people were treated with anthelminthics (3).
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