Characterization of South American Snails of the Genus Biomphalaria (Basommatophora: Planorbidae) and Schistosoma mansoni (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) in Molluscs by PCR-RFLP

Table 1

Molluscs of the genus Biomphalaria present in Latin America.

Species	Geographical distribution	Susceptibility to Schistosoma mansoni
Biomphalaria amazonica, Paraense 1966	Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia	EI
Biomphalaria andecola (Orbigny, 1835)	Bolivia, Peru, Chile	NI
Biomphalaria cousini Paraense, 1966	Brazil, Ecuador	EI
Biomphalaria edisoni (Estrada et al., 2006)	Colombia	NI
Biomphalaria equatoria (Cousin, 1887)	Ecuador	NI
Biomphalaria glabrata (Say, 1818)	Antigua, Brazil, Curacao, Dominica, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Venezuela	S
Biomphalaria havanensis (Pfeiffer, 1839)	Haiti, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Venezuela	EI
Biomphalaria helophila (Orbigny, 1835)	Peru, Cuba, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, Haiti, Mexico, Saint Thomas, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Nicaragua	EI
Biomphalaria intermedia (Paraense & Deslandes, 1962)	Brazil, Argentine	NS
Biomphalaria kuhniana (Clessin, 1883)	Suriname, Brazil, Venezuela, Panama, Colombia	NS
Biomphalaria nicaraguana (Morelet, 1851)	Nicaragua	NI
Biomphalaria occidentalis Paraense, 1981	Brazil, Paraguay, Argentine	NS
Biomphalaria oligoza Paraense, 1974	Bolivia, Brazil, Argentine	EI
Biomphalaria orbignyi Paraense, 1975	Argentine, Uruguay	EI
Biomphalaria obstructa (Morelet, 1849)	Mexico, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, Cuba	NS
Biomphalaria pallida (Adams, 1846)	Jamaica, Cuba	NI
Biomphalaria peregrina (Orbigny, 1835)	Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Argentine, Colombia	EI
Biomphalaria prona (Martens, 1873)	Venezuela	S
Biomphalaria schrammi (Crosse, 1864)	French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Brazil	NS
Biomphalaria sericea (Dunker, 1848)	Ecuador	EI
Biomphalaria straminea (Dunker, 1848)	Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentine, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Uruguay, Costa Rica	S
Biomphalaria subprona (Martens, 1899)	Mexico, Guatemala	NI
Biomphalaria tenagophila (Orbigny, 1835)	Argentine, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia	S
Biomphalaria tenagophila guaibensis Paraense, 1984	Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentine	NS
Biomphalaria trigyra (Philippi, 1869)	Peru, Ecuador	NS

a: susceptible = S; not susceptible = NS; experimental infection = EI; not information = NI.