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Galba cousini
Galba cousini is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
From the article Galba cousini on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The length of the shell attains 13.8 mm. Galba cousini are intermediate hosts of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica, the causal agent of fasciolosis, a zoonotic parasitic disease.
Range & habitat
Unlike marine snails, Galba cousini is a freshwater species endemic to the northern Andean regions of South America. Its geographic range includes high-altitude areas of Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 984329.