Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Ecology of Lymnaeid Snails

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
The Lymnaeidae

Part of the book series: Zoological Monographs ((ZM,volume 7))

  • 184 Accesses

Abstract

The ecology of the lymnaeid snails, including their habitat preferences, resistance to abiotic factors, and interactions with other species of freshwater organisms, is briefly reviewed and accompanied by numerous illustrations. A special section deals with the patterns of life cycles, reproduction, and fecundity of the pond snails.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 149.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Abel O (1920) Lehrbuch der Paläozoologie. G. Fischer Verlag, Jena

    Google Scholar 

  • Adam M, Lewis J (1992) The lack of co-existence between Lymnaea peregra and Lymnaea auricularia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). J Mollus Stud 58:227–228. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/58.2.227

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Aksenova O, Vinarski M, Bolotov I et al (2017a) An overview of recent studies of Lymnaeid snails from geothermal habitats of Northern Palearctic. Book of abstracts, 8th European Congress of Malacological Societies, September 10–14, 2017. Kraków, Poland. P. 139

    Google Scholar 

  • Aksenova O, Vinarski M, Bolotov I et al (2017b) Two Radix spp. (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) endemic to thermal springs around Lake Baikal represent ecotypes of the widespread Radix auricularia. J Zool Syst Evol Res 55(4):298–309. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12174

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Aksenova OV, Bolotov IN, Gofarov MY et al (2018) Species richness, molecular taxonomy and biogeography of the radicine pond snails (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) in the Old World. Sci Rep-UK 8:11199. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29451-1

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Alyakrinskaya IO (2004) Drying resistance of aquatic molluscs. Izvestiya RAN, seriya biologicheskaya 3:367–374. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Andreeva SI, Andreev NI, Vinarski MV (2010) Key to freshwater gastropods of Western Siberia (Mollusca: Gastropoda). V. 1. Gastropoda: Pulmonata. Fasc. 1. Families Acroloxidae and Lymnaeidae. The authors, Omsk. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Anistratenko VV (1987) The use of empty shells and alive mollusks by Trichoptera larvae for construction of their cases. Vestnik zoologii 3:75–76. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Axenov-Gribanov DK, Vereshchagina Y, Lubyaga A (2015) Stress response at the cellular and biochemical levels indicates the limitation of the environmental temperature range for Eastern Siberian populations of the common gastropod Lymnaea stagnalis. Malacologia 59:33–44. https://doi.org/10.4002/040.059.0105

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Aziz MDA, Raut SK (1996) Thermal effect on the life-cycle parameters of the medically important freshwater snail species Lymnaea (Radix) luteola (Lamarck). Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 97(1):119–128. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02761996000100022

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baker FC (1928) Influence of a changed environment in the formation of new species and varieties. Ecology 9:271–283. https://doi.org/10.2307/1932368

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bargues MD, Artigas P, Khoubbane M et al (2011) Lymnaea schirazensis, an overlooked snail distorting fascioliasis data: genotype, phenotype, ecology, worldwide spread, susceptibility, applicability. PLoS One 6:e24567. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0024567

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Beklemishev VN (1951) On classification of biotic (symphysiological) relationships. Byulleten Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytateley prirody. Otdel biologicheskiy 56:3–30. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Beklemishev VN (1970) The biocoenological fundamentals of comparative parasitology: a collection of essays. Nauka Publishers, Moscow. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Belskii E, Grebennikov M (2014) Snail consumption and breeding performance of pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) along a pollution gradient in the Middle Urals, Russia. Sci Total Environ 490:114–120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.04.116

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Berezina NA (2001) Influence of ambient pH on freshwater invertebrates under experimental conditions. Russ J Ecol 32:343–351. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011978311733

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Beriozkina GV, Starobogatov YI (1988) Reproductive ecology and egg masses of freshwater Pulmonata. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR 174:1–306. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Beriozkina GV, Starobogatov YI (1992 “1991”). The systems of reproduction of freshwater Pulmonata. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR 228:130–139. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Bespalaya YV, Bolotov IN, Usacheva OV (2011) Mollusk population of a Subarctic hydrothermal ecosystem in winter. Zool Zh 90(11):1304–1322. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Bielecki A, Rybak J, Lukowiak-Bielecka M (1999) Glossiphoniidae Vaillant, 1850 [Hirudinea] of Poland – systematics and perspectives of studies. Ann Parasitol 45(1):29–61

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bilton DT, Freeland JR, Okamura B (2001) Dispersal in freshwater invertebrates. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 32:159–181. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.32.081501.114016

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Boettger CR (1944) Basommatophora. Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Becker and Erler Kom.-Ges., Leipzig 9(b2):241–478

    Google Scholar 

  • Boldyreva NV (1930) On overwintering of aquatic organisms frozen into ice. Russkiy Gidrobiologicheskiy Zhurnal 9(1):45–84. [in Russian with German resume]

    Google Scholar 

  • Bolotov IN, Bespalaya YV, Usacheva OV (2012) Ecology and evolution of hydrobionts in hot springs of the Subarctic and Arctic: formation of similar assemblages, adaptation of species, and microevolutionary processes. Biol Bull Reviews 2(4):340–348. https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079086412040020

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bolotov I, Bespalaya Y, Aksenova O et al (2014) A taxonomic revision of two local endemic Radix spp. (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) from Khodutka geothermal area, Kamchatka, Russian Far East. Zootaxa 3869(5):585–593. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3869.5.9

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bolotov IN, Aksenova OV, Bespalaya YV et al (2017) Origin of a divergent mtDNA lineage of a freshwater snail species, Radix balthica, in Iceland: cryptic glacial refugia or a postglacial founder event? Hydrobiologia 787:73–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-016-2946-9

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Boray JC (1964) Studies on the ecology of Lymnaea tomentosa, the intermediate host of Fasciola hepatica. 1. History, geographical distribution, and environment. Aust. J Zoology 12(2):217–230. https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO9640217

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Boss (1978) On the evolution of gastropods in ancient lakes. In: Fretter V, Peake J (eds) Pulmonates, vol 2A. Academic Press, London, pp 385–428

    Google Scholar 

  • Bössneck U (2012) Leben am Limit: Besiedlung von Süßwasser-Habitaten extremer Hochlagen Asiens, Amerikas und Afrikas durch Mollusken (Mollusca: Bivalvia & Gastropoda). In: Hartmann M, Weipert J (eds) Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya IV. Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt e. V, Erfurt, pp 103–106

    Google Scholar 

  • Boycott AE (1936) The habitats of fresh-water Mollusca in Britain. J Anim Ecol 5(1):116–186. https://doi.org/10.2307/1096

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Briers RA (2003) Range size and environmental calcium requirements of British freshwater gastropods. Glob Ecol Biogeogr 12:47–51. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1466-822X.2003.00316.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brönmark C (1992) Leech predation on juvenile freshwater snails: effects of size, species and substrate. Oecologia 91:526–529. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00650326

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Brönmark C, Rundle SD, Erlandsson A (1991) Interactions between freshwater snails and tadpoles: Competition and facilitation. Oecologia 87(1):8–18. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00323774

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Brown DS (1994) Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. Taylor and Francis, London. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781482295184

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Brown RJ (2007) Freshwater mollusks survive fish gut passage. Arctic 60(2):124–128. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic237

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Burch JB (1968) Erinna newcombi of Hawaii and Limnaea onychia of Japan. Malacol Rev 1:15–30

    Google Scholar 

  • Buse A (1974) The relationship of Chaetogaster limnaei (Oligochaeta: Naididae) with a variety of gastropod species. J Anim Ecol 43(3):821–837. https://doi.org/10.2307/3538

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • CABI – Invasive species compendium (2021). Accessed at https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/23113 on 1 November 2021

  • Cadée GC (2011) Hydrobia as “Jonah in the Whale”: Shell repair after passing through the digestive tract of shellducks alive. Palaios 26:245–249. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2010.p10-095r

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Calow P (1978) The evolution of life-cycle strategies in fresh-water gastropods. Malacologia 17:351–364

    Google Scholar 

  • Cheatum EP (1934) Limnological investigations on respiration, annual migratory cycle, and other related phenomena in fresh-water pulmonate snails. T Am Misrosc Soc 53(4):348–407. https://doi.org/10.2307/3222383

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Clarke AH (1973) The freshwater molluscs of the Canadian Interior Basin. Malacologia 13:1–509

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Clessin S (1877) Die Mollusken der Tiefenfauna unserer Alpenseen. Malakozoologische Blätter 24:159–185

    Google Scholar 

  • Clewing C, Albrecht C, Wilke T (2016) A complex system of glacial sub-refugia drives endemic freshwater biodiversity on the Tibetan Plateau. PLoS One 11:e0160286. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160286

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Dar Y, Djuikwo-Teukeng FF, Vignoles P et al (2010) Radix natalensis (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae), a potential intermediate host of Fasciola hepatica in Egypt. Parasite 17:251–256. https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2010173251

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Darwin C (1878) Transplantation of shells. Nature 18:120

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Darwin C (1882) On the dispersal of freshwater Bivalves. Nature 25:529–530

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • De Ventura L, Weissert N, Tobias R et al (2016) Overland transport of recreational boats as a spreading vector of zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha. Biol Invasions 18:1451–1466. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-016-1094-5

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dillon RT (2000) The ecology of freshwater molluscs. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge etc. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511542008

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Dregol’skaya IN, Korotneva NV, Starobogatov YI (1988) Molluscs of the eastern part of the Finnish Gulf and their cytoecological study. Zool Zh 67(11):1631–1637. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Du Rietz GE (1931) Life-forms of terrestrial flowering plants. Acta Phytogeographica Suecica 3(1):1–95

    Google Scholar 

  • Dulkin AL (1961) Water chemistry of the lakes of the Southern Urals and Trans-Urals and [their] mollusks. Zool Zh 40(10):1461–1464. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Dussart GBJ (1979) Life cycles and distribution of the aquatic gastropod molluscs Bithynia tentaculata (L.), Gyraulus albus (Muller), Planorbis planorbis (L.) and Lymnaea peregra (Muller) in relation to water chemistry. Hydrobiologia 67(3):223–239. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00023179

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Eichler W (1952) Die Tierwelt der Gewächshäuser. Academische Verlagsgesellschaft, Gees & Portig, Leipzig

    Google Scholar 

  • el-Dafrawi SM (2002) Morphological and ecological studies on Lymnaea natalensis, the snail vector of Fasciola gigantica in Egypt. J Egypt Soc Parasitol 32(2):447–456

    Google Scholar 

  • Forel FA (1869) Introduction à l’étude de la faune profonde du lac Léman. Bulletin de la Société vaudoise des sciences naturelles 10:217–223

    Google Scholar 

  • Forel FA (1874) Matériaux pour servir à l’étude de la faune profonde du lac Léman. 1″ série. Bulletin de la Société vaudoise des sciences naturelles 13:1–164

    Google Scholar 

  • Frömming E (1956) Biologie der mitteleuropäischen Süßwasserschnecken. Dunker-Humblot, Berlin

    Google Scholar 

  • Gittenberger E, Tobgay K, Gyeltshen C et al (2021) Two high altitude species of molluscs, new for Bhutan (Bivalvia, Sphaeriidae – Gastropoda, Lymnaeidae). Basteria 85(1):13–17

    Google Scholar 

  • Glöer P (2019) The freshwater gastropods of the West-Palaearctis. Volume 1. Fresh- and brackish waters except spring and subterranean snails. Identification key, anatomy, ecology, distribution. The author, Hetlingen

    Google Scholar 

  • Golubev AP, Bodilovskaya OA, Slesareva LE et al (2013) Population dynamics of the pulmonate mollusk Lymnaea stagnalis under the conditions of prolonged reproduction by self-fertilization. Dokl Biol Sci 452:300–304. https://doi.org/10.1134/s0012496613050165

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Graevsky EA (1946) The temperature-preference and the temperature optimum of fresh-water molluscs and Arthropoda. Zh Obshch Biol 7:455–472. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Gruffydd LD (1965a) Evidence for the existence of a new subspecies of Chaetogaster limnaei (Oligochaeta) in Britain. J Zool 146:175–196. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1965.tb05208.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gruffydd LD (1965b) The population biology of Chaetogaster limnaei limnaei and Chaetogaster limnaei vaghini (Oligochaeta). J Anim Ecol 34:667–690. https://doi.org/10.2307/2455

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harutyunova LD (1977) Aphally in a population of Radix (Gastropoda; Lymnaeidae) of Armenia. Biologicheskiy Zhurnal Armenii 30(3):89–90. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Hazay J (1881) Die Molluskenfauna von Budapest. III. Biologische Theil. Zur Entwicklungs- und Lebensgeschichte der Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken. Malakozoologische Blatter, Neue Folge 4:43–224

    Google Scholar 

  • Heller J (1990) Longevity in molluscs. Malacologia 31(2):259–295

    Google Scholar 

  • Heller J (1993) Hermaphroditism in molluscs. Biol J Linn Soc 48:19–42. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1993.tb00874.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hopkins SR, Wyderko JA, Sheehy RR et al (2013) Parasite predators exhibit a rapid numerical response to increased parasite abundance and reduce transmission to hosts. Eco Evol 3(13):4427–4438. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.634

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Horsák M, Dvořák L, Juřičková L (2004) Greenhouse gastropods of the Czech Republic: current stage of research. Malakológiai Tájekoztató (Malacological Newsletter) 22:141–147

    Google Scholar 

  • Hubendick B (1952) Hawaiian Lymnaeidae. Occasional Papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii 20(19):307–328

    Google Scholar 

  • Humphreys AM, Govaerts R, Ficinski SZ et al (2019) Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nat Ecol Evol 3:1043–1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hunter RD (1990) Effects of low pH and low calcium concentration on the pulmonate snail Planorbella trivolvis, a laboratory study. Can J Zool 68:1578–1583. https://doi.org/10.1139/z90-233

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Izzatullaev Z, Kruglov ND, Starobogatov YI (1983) New and ill-known species of mollusks of the subgenus Radix of the genus Lymnaea of the USSR fauna from the Central Asia (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Tajikskoy SSR, otdelenie biologicheskikh nauk 4(93):53–57. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Jabbour-Zahab R, Pointier JP, Jourdane J et al (1997) Phylogeography and genetic divergence of some lymnaeid snails, intermediate hosts of human and animal fascioliasis with special reference to lymnaeids from the Bolivian Altiplano. Acta Trop 64:191–203. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0001-706X(96)00631-6

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Jackiewicz M (1998) European species of the family Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Basommatophora). Genus 9(1):1–93

    Google Scholar 

  • Jarne P, Vianey-Liaud M, Delay B (1993) Selfing and outcrossing in hermaphrodite freshwater gastropods (Basommatophora): where, when and why. Biol J Linn Soc 49:99–125. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1993.tb00893.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Johansson MP, Ermold F, Kristjánsson BK et al (2016) Divergence of gastropod life history in contrasting thermal environments in a geothermal lake. J Evol Biol 29:2043–2053. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12928

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Jordaens K, Dillen L, Backeljau T (2007) Effects of mating, breeding system and parasites on reproduction in hermaphrodites: pulmonate gastropods. Anim Biol 57(2):137–195. https://doi.org/10.1163/157075607780377965

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kappes H, Haase P (2012) Slow, but steady: dispersal of freshwater molluscs. Aquat Sci 74:1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-011-0187-6

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Katkov MV (1971) On the survival of planorbid molluscs (Pulmonata) in non-permanent waterbodies and the persistence of trematode larvae in them. Zool Zh 50(4):584–586. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Kew HW (1893) The dispersal of shells, an inquiry into the means of dispersal possessed by fresh-water and land Mollusca. The International Scientific Series 75:xi+1–291. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10376

  • Khalil LF (1961) On the capture and destruction of miracidia by Chaetogaster limnaei (Oligochaeta). J Helminthol 35(3–4):269–274. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X00004648

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Khmeleva NN, Golubev AP, Laenko TN (1985) The ecology of gastropod molluscs from geothermal springs in Kamchatka. Zh Obshch Biol 46(2):230–240. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Kitai H, Kakuda U, Goto S et al (2021) Photoperiod controls egg laying and caudodorsal cell hormone expression but not gonadal development in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis. J Comp Physiol A 207:523–532. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-021-01494-2

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Klemm DJ (1976) Leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) found in North American mollusks. Malac Review 9:62–76

    Google Scholar 

  • Knutson LV, Vala JC (2011) Biology of snail-killing Sciomyzidae flies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge etc

    Google Scholar 

  • Kobelt W (1871) Zur Kenntniss der europäischen Limnäen. II. L. stagnalis Linné. Malakozoologische Blätter 18:108–119

    Google Scholar 

  • Krkać N (1979) Temperature and reproductive cycle relations in Radix peregra O.F. Müller. Malacologia 18:227–232

    Google Scholar 

  • Kruglov ND (1980) The reproductive biology of the freshwater pulmonate molluscs (Pulmonata). Zool Zh 59(7):986–995. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Kruglov ND (2005) Lymnaeid snails of Europe and Northern Asia. Smolensk State Pedagogical University Press, Smolensk. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Kruglov ND, Starobogatov YI (1985) The volume of the subgenus Galba and of other similar subgenera of the genus Lymnaea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Zool Zh 64(1):24–35. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Kruglov ND, Starobogatov YI (1987) Life forms in lymnaeids and some problems of their systematics. In: Starobogatov YI, Golikov AN, Likharev IM (eds) Molluyski: rezultaty i perspektivy ikh issledovaniy. Vsesoyuznoye soveshchaniye po izucheniyu mollyuskov. Avtoreferaty dokladov, vol 8. Nauka Publishers, Leningrad, pp 68–70. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Kruglov ND, Starobogatov YI (1989) Morphology and taxonomy of the molluscs from the subgenus Radix of the genus Lymnaea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Lymnaeidae) from Siberia and far east of the USSR. Zool Zh 68(5):17–30. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Kruglov ND & Starobogatov YI (1992 [“1991”]) The unknown egg masses of molluscs of the genus Lymnaea (Gastropoda Pulmonata Lymnaeidae). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 228:111–129. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Kunigelis SC, Saleuddin ASM (1978) Regulation of growth in the pulmonate gastropod Helisoma duryi. Can J Zool 56:1975–1980. https://doi.org/10.1139/z78-265

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lam PKS (1994) Intraspecific life-history variation in Radix plicatulus (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Lymnaeidae). J Zool 232:435–446. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1994.tb01584.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lawson AK (1921) Limnaea stagnalis destroyed by rats. J Conchol 16(5):144

    Google Scholar 

  • Leicht K, Seppälä K, Seppälä O (2017) Potential for adaptation to climate change: family-level variation in fitness-related traits and their responses to heat waves in a snail population. BMC Evol Biol 17:140. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-0988-x

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Leiß A, Reischütz PL (1995) Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna der Gewächshäuser in Wien und Niederösterreich. Bufus-Info – Mitteilungsblatt der Biologischen Unterwasserforschungsgruppe der Universität Salzburg, vol 16, pp 23–30

    Google Scholar 

  • Levina OV (1973) The fecundity of the freshwater molluscs Limnaea stagnalis and Radix ovata. Zool Zh 52(5):676–684. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Lounnas M, Correa AC, Vázquez AA et al (2017) Self-fertilization, long-distance flash invasion and biogeography shape the population structure of Pseudosuccinea columella at the worldwide scale. Mol Ecol 26:887–903. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13984

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lukin EI (1976) The leeches of fresh- and brackish waterbodies. Fauna SSSR. Piyavki 1:1–484. Nauka, Leningrad. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Madsen H, Frandsen F (1989) The spread of freshwater snails including those of medical and veterinary importance. Acta Trop 46:139–146. https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-706x(89)90030-2

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Maharaj R, Naidoo I, Appleton C (2005) Susceptibility of schistosome host snails to predation by sciomyzid flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) in South Africa. Afr J Aquat Sci 30(2):175–178. https://doi.org/10.2989/16085910509503853

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mahulu A, Clewing C, Stelbrink B et al (2019) Cryptic intermediate snail host of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica in Africa. Parasite Vectors 12:573. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3825-9

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Malone CR (1965) Dispersal of aquatic gastropods via the intestinal tract of water birds. The Nautilus 78:135–139

    Google Scholar 

  • Marinoni L, Murphy WL (2016) Family Sciomyzidae. Zootaxa 4122(1):642–647. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.53

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Martins RT, Alves RG (2010) Occurrence of Chaetogaster limnaei K. von Baer, 1927 (Oligochaeta, Naididae) associated with Gastropoda mollusks in horticultural channels in Southeastern Brazil. Braz J Biol 70(4):1055–1057. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1519-69842010000500020

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Martynov AV, Anistratenko VV, Furyk YI (2018) Endemic spring snails Terrestribythinella (Mollusca) as unusual material for larval case of Crunoecia irrorata (Trichoptera: Lepidostomatidae) in Transcarpathian Ukraine. Ecologica Montenegrina 18:120–125. https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2018.18.11

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McMahon RF (1983) Physiological ecology of freshwater pulmonates. In: Russell-Hunter WD (ed) The Mollusca, vol 6. Academic Press, Orlando etc, pp 360–430

    Google Scholar 

  • Meeuse ADJ, Hubert B (1949) The mollusc fauna of glasshouses in The Netherlands. Basteria 13(1/3):1–44

    Google Scholar 

  • Meshcheryakov VN (1990) The common pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis. In: Dettlaff TA, Wassetsky SG (eds) Animal species for developmental studies: Invertebrates. Plenum Publishing Corp, New York, pp 69–132

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Mitchell DR, Leung TLF (2016) Sharing the load: a survey of parasitism in the invasive freshwater pulmonate, Physa acuta (Hygrophila: Physidae) and sympatric native snail populations. Hydrobiologia 766:165–172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-015-2452-5

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nekhaev IO (2011) Geographic distribution features of subgenus and life forms of Lymnaeidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in eastern Europe. Biol Bull 38(9):406–411. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359011040121

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nekhaev IO (2021) Freshwater gastropods of the western part of the Kola Peninsula and northern Karelia (northern Europe). Ruthenica. Russian Malacol J 31(4):147–175. https://doi.org/10.35885/ruthenica.2021.31(4).1

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nekhaev IO, Palatov DM (2016) From the Black Sea to the White Sea: The first record of the invasive mollusc Physella acuta in the extreme North of the Europe. Russ J Biol Invasions 7(4):351–354. https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075111716040056

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ng TH, Tan SK, Wong WH et al (2016) Molluscs for sale: Assessment of freshwater gastropods and bivalves in the ornamental pet trade. PLoS One 11(8):e0161130. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161130

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Nicot A, Dubois M-P, Debain C et al (2008) Characterization of 15 microsatellite loci in the pulmonate snail Pseudosuccinea columella (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Mol Ecol Resour 8:1281–1284. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2007.02065.x

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Numata H, Udaka H (2009) In: Nelson RJ, Denlinger DL, Somers DE (eds) Photoperiodism in mollusks. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 173–192. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335903.003.0008

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Økland J (1990) Lakes and snails. Environment and Gastropoda in 1,500 Norwegian lakes, ponds and rivers. Universal Book Services / Dr. W. Backhuys Publ, Oegstgeest

    Google Scholar 

  • Olsson TI (1981) Overwintering of benthic macroinvertebrates in ice and frozen sediment in a North Swedish river. Ecography 4:161–166. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.1981.tb00993.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Oswood MW, Miller LK, Irons JG (1991) Overwintering of freshwater benthic macroinvertebrates. In: Lee RE, Denlinger DL (eds) Insects at low temperature. Springer, Boston MA, pp 360–375. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0190-6_15

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Pagulayan IF, Umaly RC, Enriquez GL (1983) Studies on the biology of Radix quadrasi: shell color, mantle pigmentation, and chromosome numbers. Nat Appl Sci Bull 35(2):147–155

    Google Scholar 

  • Patoka J, Kopecký O, Vrabec V et al (2017) Aquarium molluscs as a case study in risk assessment of incidental freshwater fauna. Biol Invasions 19:2039–2046. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1412-6

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Patzer HE (1927) Beiträge zur Biologie der Leberegelschnecke, Galba (Limnaea) truncatula Müll. Zool Jahrb Abt Syst Ökol Geogr Tiere 53(4/5):321–372

    Google Scholar 

  • Pavlova MV (1983) Biology and productivity of Limnaea (Radix) auricularia (L.) var. obliquata Martens in the Lake Issyk-Kul. In: Konurbaev AO (ed) Limnologicheskiye issledovaniya v Kirgizii. Frunze, Ilim, pp 34–46. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Piaget J (1912) Les récents dragages malacologiques de M. le Prof. Émile Yung dans le lac Léman. Journal de Conchyliologie 60:205–233

    Google Scholar 

  • Piaget J (1913) Les mollusques sublittoraux du Léman recueillis par M. le Prof. Yung. Zool Anz 42:615–624

    Google Scholar 

  • Piggott H, Dussart G (1995) Egg-laying and associated behavioural responses of Lymnaea peregra (Müller) and Lymnaea stagnalis (L.) to calcium in their environment. Malacologia 37(1):13–21

    Google Scholar 

  • Pip E (1986) The ecology of freshwater gastropods in the central Canadian region. The Nautilus 100:56–66

    Google Scholar 

  • Pip E (1993) The distribution of freshwater gastropods in central North America in relation to water temperature. Heldia 2(1/2):21–27

    Google Scholar 

  • Pointier JP (ed) (2015) Freshwater molluscs of Venezuela and their medical and veterinary importance. Conchbooks, Harxheim

    Google Scholar 

  • Prozorova LA (1992 [“1991”]) Morphology of gastropod egg-clusters of the Primorye Region. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 228:74–110. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Reeve LA (1850) On a new species of Lymnaea from Thibet. Proc Zool Soc Lond 18:49. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12858725

    Google Scholar 

  • Richards AG (1965) The developmental rate and oxygen consumption of snail eggs at various temperatures. Z Naturforsch B 20:347–349. https://doi.org/10.1515/znb-1965-0417

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rondelaud D (1976) L’interet d’une association de mollusques Zonitidae dans le contróle biologique de Lymnaea (Galba) truncatula Müller sur terrains siliceux et calcaires. Ann Parasitologie 51:41–49

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Rondelaud D, Vignoles P, Dreyfuss G et al (2006) The control of Galba truncatula (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) by the terrestrial snail Zonitoides nitidus on acid soils. Biol Control 39:290–299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2006.07.015

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rondelaud D, Vignoles P, Dreyfuss G (2016) Aplexa hypnorum (Gastropoda: Physidae) exerts competition on two lymnaeid species in periodically dried ditches. Ann Limnol 52:379–386. https://doi.org/10.1051/limn/2016022

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rondelaud D, Vignoles G, Dreyfuss G et al (2023, this volume) Control of fasciolosis-transmitting lymnaeids in the field. In: Vinarski MV, Vàzquez AA (eds) The Lymnaeidae: a handbook. Springer, Cham, pp 415–445

    Google Scholar 

  • Roszkowski W (1914) Contribution a l’étude des limnées du Lac Léman. Rev Suisse Zool 22:457–539

    Google Scholar 

  • Roszkowski W (1925) Contributions to the knowledge of the family Lymnaeidae. II. Some new data to the knowledge of the Altai Lymnaea. Annales Zoologici Musei Polonici Historiae Naturalis 4(4):277–281

    Google Scholar 

  • Russell-Hunter WD (1964) Physiological aspects of ecology in non-marine mollusks. In: Wilbur KM, Yonge CM (eds) Physiology of Mollusca. Academic Press, London, pp 83–125

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Russell-Hunter WD (1978) Ecology of freshwater pulmonates. In: Fretter V, Peake J (eds) Pulmonates, vol 2A. Academic Press, London, pp 335–384

    Google Scholar 

  • Salazkin AA (1969) On some pecularities of distribution of gastropods in lakes of different type in the humid zone of Western Siberia. In: Johanzen BG (ed) Voprosy malakologii Sibiri. Tomsk State University, Tomsk, pp 57–60. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Schniebs K, Sitnikova TY, Vinarski MV et al (2022) Morphological and Genetic Variability in Radix auricularia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) of Lake Baikal Siberia: The Story of an Unfinished Invasion into the Ancient Deepest Lake Diversity 14(7):527. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14070527

  • Schodduyn R (1925) Observations biologiques en microaquarium. Ann Biol Lacustre 14:39–47

    Google Scholar 

  • Shirokaya AA, Takhteev VV (2018) The key for gastropods of the family Acroloxidae Thiele, 1931 (Pulmonata: Hygrophila) of Lake Baikal, with remarks on the species’ ecology and distribution. V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, Irkutsk. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Simonová J, Simon OP, Kapic Š et al (2016) Medium-sized forest snails survive passage through birds’ digestive tract and adhere strongly to birds’ legs: more evidence for passive dispersal mechanisms. J Mollus Stud 82(3):422–426. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyw005

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smythe AB, Forgrave K, Patti A et al (2015) Untangling the ecology, taxonomy, and evolution of Chaetogaster limnaei (Oligochaeta: Naididae) species complex. J Parasitol 101(3):320–326. https://doi.org/10.1645/13-465.1

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Stadnichenko AP (2004) Pond snails and limpet snails (Lymnaeidae and Acroloxidae) of Ukraine. Tsentr uchebnoj literatury, Kiev. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Stadnichenko AP (2006) Lymnaeidae and Acroloxidae of Ukraine: sampling and studying methods, biology, ecology, their practical importance. Ruta Press, Zhytomyr. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Starobogatov YI (1970) Molluscan fauna and zoogeographic zonation of continental freshwater bodies of the world. Nauka, Leningrad. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Starobogatov YI, Prozorova LA, Zatravkin MN (1989) Species composition of the family Physidae (Gastropoda Pulmonata Lymnaeiformes) of Siberia and Far East of the USSR (with notes on European physids). Byulleten' Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytateley pripody. Otdel biologicheskiy 94(1):62–78. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Stoll SD, Frueh B, Westerwald N et al (2013) Density-dependent relationship between Chaetogaster limnaei limnaei (Oligochaeta) and the freshwater snail Physa acuta (Pulmonata). Freshw Sci 32:642–649. https://doi.org/10.1899/12-072.1

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Takhteev VV, Sudakova EA, Egorova IN et al (2006) To the characteristics of aquatic and land biocoenoses in the sites of effusion of thermal springs in east Prybaikaliye, vol 6. Trudy Biologo-Pochvennogo Fakulteta IGU, Irkutsk, pp 111–136. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Takhteev VV, Eropova IO, Egorova IN et al (2019) Structure of hydrobiocenoses in mineral and thermal springs of the Lake Baikal region: a review. Contemp Probl Ecol 12(2):126–142. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425519020082

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Taylor DW, Walter HJ, Burch JB (1963) Freshwater snails of the subgenus Hinkleyia (Lymnaeidae: Stagnicola) from the Western United States. Malacologia 1(2):237–281

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ter Maat A, Pieneman AW, Koene JM (2012) The effect of light on induced egg laying in the simultaneous hermaphrodite Lymnaea stagnalis. J Mollus Stud 78(3):262–267. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eys008

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • TROPMED Technical Group (1986) Snails of medical importance in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 17(2):282–322

    Google Scholar 

  • Trouvé S, Degen L, Renaud F et al (2003) Evolutionary implications of a high selfing rate in the freshwater snail Galba truncatula. Evolution 57(10):2302–2314. https://doi.org/10.1554/02-452

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Trouvé S, Degen L, Goudet J (2005) Ecological components and evolution of selfing in the freshwater snail Galba truncatula. J Evol Biol 18:358–370. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00831.x

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Tsikhon-Lukanina EA (1987) Trophology of aquatic molluscs. Nauka, Moscow. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Tsikhon-Lukanina EA, Reznichenko OG, Lukasheva TA (1998) Diet composition and food diversity in marine and freshwater gastropods. Zool Zh 77(3):270–277. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Vaghin [=W]V (1931) Chaetogaster limnaei K. Baer als Cercarienvertilger. Zool Anz 95:55–59

    Google Scholar 

  • Vaghin [=W]V (1946) On the biological species of Chaetogaster limnaei, k. Baer. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 51(6):481–484. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • van Leeuwen CHA, van der Velde G, van Lith B et al (2012) Experimental quantification of long distance dispersal potential of aquatic snails in the gut of migratory birds. PLoS One 7(3):32292. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032292

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • van Leeuwen CHA, Huig N, van der Velde G et al (2013) How did this snail get here? Several dispersal vectors inferred for an aquatic invasive species. Freshw Biol 58:88–99. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12041

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Van Someren VD (1946) The habitats and tolerance ranges of Lymnaea (Radix) caillaudi, the intermediate snail host of liver fluke in East Africa. J Anim Ecol 15(2):170–197. https://doi.org/10.2307/1557

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vaughn CM (1953) Effects of temperature on hatching and growth of Lymnaea stagnalis appressa Say. Am Midl Nat 49:214–228. https://doi.org/10.2307/2422289

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vàzquez AA, Alba A, Alda P et al (2023, this volume) Lymnaeid snails and the transmission of fasciolosis: understanding the differential risks from local to global scale. In: Vinarski MV, Vàzquez AA (eds) The Lymnaeidae: a handbook. Springer, Cham, pp 359–394

    Google Scholar 

  • Vignoles P, Dreyfuss G, Rondelaud D (2017) Ecologie et parasitisme de la Limnée eґtroite (Omphiscola glabra). PULIM, Limoges

    Google Scholar 

  • Vinarski MV (2017) The history of an invasion: phases of the explosive spread of the physid snail Physella acuta through Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. Biol Invasions 19(4):1299–1314. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-016-1339-3

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vinarski MV, Grebennikov ME (2012) An overview of species of the genus Aenigmomphiscola Kruglov et Starobogatov, 1981 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Lymnaeidae). Ruthenica Russian Malacol J 22(2):159–170. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Vinarski MV, Kantor YI (2016) Analytical catalogue of fresh and brackish water molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS, Moscow

    Google Scholar 

  • Vinarski MV, Palatov DM (2018) Ferrissia californica: the first record of a global invader in a cave habitat. J Nat Hist 52(17–18):1147–1155. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2018.1450904

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vinarski MV, Pointier JP (2023, this volume) General characteristics of the family Lymnaeidae. In: Vinarski MV, Vàzquez AA (eds) The Lymnaeidae: a handbook. Springer, Cham, pp 25–66

    Google Scholar 

  • Vinarski MV, Bolotov IN, Aksenova OV et al (2021) Freshwater Mollusca of the circumpolar Arctic: a review on their taxonomy, diversity and biogeography. Hydrobiologia 848:2891–2918. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04270-6

  • Vinarski MV, Aksenova OV, Bolotov IN et al (2022a) A new alien snail Ampullaceana balthica for the Canadian fauna, with an overview of Transatlantic malacofaunal exchange in the Anthropocene. Aquat Invasions 17(1):21–35. https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2022.17.1.02

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vinarski MV, von Oheimb PV, Aksenova OV et al (2022b) Trapped on the Roof of the World: Taxonomic diversity and evolutionary patterns of Tibetan Plateau endemic freshwater snails (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae: Tibetoradix). Integr Zool 17:825–848. https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12600

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Vinarski MV, Aksenova OV, Bespalaya YV et al (2023) How an Ecological Race Is Forming: Morphological and Genetic Disparity among Thermal and Non-Thermal Populations of Aquatic Lymnaeid Snails (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae). Diversity 15(4):548. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15040548

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Voronezhskaya EE, Khabarova MY, Nezlin LP (2004) Apical sensory neurones mediate developmental retardation induced by conspecific environmental stimuli in freshwater pulmonate snails. Development 131:3671–3680. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.01237

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Voronezhskaya EE, Khabarova MY, Chaban AM et al (2007) Role of chemical signalling in release of motor programs during embryogenesis of freshwater snails Lymnaea stagnalis and Helisoma trivolvis. Ontogenez 38(2):94–104. [in Russian]

    Google Scholar 

  • Welter-Schultes F (2012) European non-marine molluscs: a guide for species identification. Planet Poster Editions, Göttingen

    Google Scholar 

  • Wesenberg-Lund C (1939) Biologie der Süsswassertiere. Wirbellose Tiere. Julius Springer Verlag, Wien

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Wullschleger EB, Jokela J (2002) Morphological plasticity and divergence in life-history traits between two closely related freshwater snails, Lymnaea ovata and Lymnaea peregra. J Mollus Stud 68:1–5. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/68.1.1

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgment

The authors are grateful to the Russian Science Foundation (projects No. 19-14-00066/P and and 21-74-10155) for the financial support of their lymnaeid studies.

Box 9.1 A Classification of Biotic Interactions Between Species (After Beklemishev 1970).

Biotic Interactions

  • Fabric [from Latin “fabric”—a workshop, art, trade, etc.]: species A uses the bodies of individuals of species B, or parts of these bodies, or their remains, as material for its buildings.

  • Phoretic [from Greek “φόρεσις”—an act of bearing]: species A uses individuals of species B as the means of its dispersal.

  • Topic [from Greek “τοπίκός”—a place]: species A changes the living conditions of species B for the better or worse.

  • Trophic [from Greek “τροφίκός”—a place]: species A feeds on individuals of species B, or their corpses, excrements, or discarded body parts.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Laboratory of Macroecology & Biogeography of Invertebrates, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

    Maxim V. Vinarski

  2. S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, St. Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

    Maxim V. Vinarski

  3. N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research, The Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Arkhangelsk, Russia

    Olga V. Aksenova

Authors
  1. Maxim V. Vinarski
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Olga V. Aksenova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Saint-Petersburg State University and S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

    Maxim V. Vinarski

  2. Institute of Tropical Medicine “Pedro Kourí”, La Habana, Cuba

    Antonio A. Vázquez

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Vinarski, M.V., Aksenova, O.V. (2023). Ecology of Lymnaeid Snails. In: Vinarski, M.V., Vázquez, A.A. (eds) The Lymnaeidae. Zoological Monographs, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30292-3_9

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation