Bulinus globosus

{{Speciesbox | image = Bulinus globosus shell.png | image_caption = apertural view of the shell of ''Bulinus globosus'' | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="IUCN">{{cite iucn |author=Albrecht, C. |author2=Clewing, C. |author3=Lange, C. |year=2018 |title=''Bulinus globosus'' |volume=2018 |article-number=e.T99504682A120114163 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T99504682A120114163.en |language=en |access-date=10 April 2026}}</ref> | taxon = Bulinus globosus | authority = (Morelet, 1866) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="IUCN"/> | synonyms = ''Physa globosus'' Morelet, 1866 }}

'''''Bulinus globosus''''' is a species of a tropical freshwater snail with a sinistral shell, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails and their allies.

==Parasites== ''Bulinus globosus'' is an intermediary host of ''Schistosoma haematobium'', along with ''Bulinus truncatus''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sène|first1=M|last2=Southgate|first2=VR|last3=Vercruysse|first3=J|title=''Bulinus truncatus'', intermediate host of ''Schistosoma haematobium'' in the Senegal River Basin (SRB) |journal=Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique |date=February 2004|volume=97|issue=1|pages=29–32|pmid=15104154}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Marti|first1=HP|last2=Tanner|first2=M|last3=Degrémont|first3=AA|last4=Freyvogel|first4=TA|title=Studies on the ecology of ''Bulinus globosus'', the intermediate host of ''Schistosoma haematobium'' in the Ifakara area, Tanzania.|journal=Acta Tropica|date=June 1985|volume=42|issue=2|pages=171–87|pmid=2862780}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

== Further reading == * {{Cite journal | last1 = Cridland | first1 = C. C. | title = Resistance of ''Bulinus'' (''Physopsis'') ''globosus'', ''Bulinus'' (Ph.) ''africanus'', ''Biomphalaria pfeifferi'' and ''Lymnaea natalensis'' to experimental desiccation | journal = Bulletin of the World Health Organization | volume = 36 | issue = 3 | pages = 507–513 | year = 1967 | pmid = 5299680 | pmc = 2476301 }}

== External links == {{Commons category-inline||''Bulinus globosus''}}

Category:Bulinus Category:Gastropods described in 1866