page_title: Semisulcospira libertina
section_title: Habitat
hierarchical_section_title: Semisulcospira libertina / Ecology / Habitat
caption_attribution_description: English: Gathering daseulgi (freshwater snails) at Chungju Lake, Namhan River, Korea 한국어: 다슬기 잡기 (남한강 충주호)
context_page_description: Semisulcospira libertina is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae. Widespread in east Asia, it lives in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. In some countries it is harvested as a food source. It is medically important as a vector of clonorchiasis, paragonimiasis, metagonimiasis and others.
context_section_description: Habitats of Semisulcospira libertina include pools, slow flowing rivers, drainage ditches, rice paddies, streams. Kim (1970) studied the habitat of Semisulcospira libertina in Korea. The water temperature is 1.3–22.5 °C.
  The pollution tolerance value is 3 (on scale 0–10; 0 is the best water quality, 10 is the worst water quality).
  High concentration of cadmium may affect behavior of this species.
caption: People gathering Semisulcospira libertina by hand at Chungju Lake, Namhan River, Korea
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