page_title: Galba neotropica
section_title: Ecology
hierarchical_section_title: Galba neotropica / Ecology
caption_attribution_description: English: The overflow originated from an artificial irrigation channel in a recreational farm in the locality of Perdriel (902 m altitude), Mendoza province, where the snail vector species Galba neotropica, syn. Lymnaea neotropica, was collected and cattle, goats, horses, donkeys and llamas proved to be infected
context_page_description: Galba neotropica is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.
  This species was described as Lymnaea neotropica in 2007. However, it belongs to the Galba/Fossaria group, therefore this species is named Galba neotropica. cf.
  Galba neotropica is the vector typically responsible for fascioliasis livestock infection.
context_section_description: Galba neotropica is sometimes amphibious. The habitat of Galba neotropica rarely also includes artificial water bodies.
  These snails hatch from eggs. The shape of the egg cluster is rounded to oval when containing few eggs; when the clutch includes more eggs there is lengthening with a slight curving trend. There are about 4-16 eggs in each cluster.
  Parasites of Galba neotropica include:
  Fasciola hepatica. The transmission capacity of Fasciola hepatica to humans is low, however, the transmission capacity of Fasciola hepatica to animals is high.
caption: An artificial irrigation channel, Mendoza Province, Argentina
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