, 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. ...
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 Oncomelaniasnails and recruited to drain rivers and ditches; millions of people were treated with anthelminthics (3).
The lethal dose of bromoacetamide is 1 ppm for Oncomelaniasnails -- approximately one tenth that required when pentachlorophenate, a traditional molluscicide, is used (35).