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EFFECT OF PROGRAMMED CIRCADIAN TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS ON POPULATION DYNAMICS OF BULINUS TROPICUS (KRAUSS) AND LYMNAEA NATALENSIS KRAUSS (GASTROPODA: MOLLUSCA)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: K.N. de Kock --- Department of Zoology, South AfricaUntil now all life-table studies on Bulinus tropicus (Krauss) and Lymnaea natalensis Krauss involving temperature as the variable factor have been conducted at constant temperatures. This study evaluates the effect of programmed, circadian temperature fluctuations, ranging from 18 to 28... -
EFFECT OF CONSTANT TEMPERATURE ON POPULATION DYNAMICS OF BULINUS TROPICUS (KRAUSS) AND LYMNAEA NATALENSIS KRAUSS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: K.N. de Kock --- Snail Research Unit of the South African Medical Resesrch Council, South Africa J.A. van Eeden --- Snail Research Unit of the South African Medical Resesrch Council, South AfricaLife-tables were compiled for cohorts of the two freshwater snail species Bulinus tropicus (Krauss) and Lymnaea natalensis Krauss at six different constant temperatures from 17 to 32 °C under identical conditions of crowding, feeding and chemical composition of the water... -
AN EVALUATION OF BABY FISH FOOD AS A SUITABLE DIET FOR THE FRESHWATER SNAIL, BIOMPHALABIA GLABRATA (SAY)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: P.H. Joubert --- Research Institute for Diseases in a Tropical Environment, South Africa K.N. de Kock --- Research Institute for Diseases in a Tropical Environment, South AfricaTetra Kin Baby Fish Food ‘E’ for Egglayers (Tetra ‘E’) was evaluated as a possible nutrient for the laboratory culture and maintenance of pigmented and unpigmented Biomphalaria glabrata (Say). Growth was monitored weekly by determining shell diameter and mass. The... -
SUITABILITY OF TROPICAL FISH FOODS FOR LABORATORY CULTURE OF FOUR SPECIES OF FRESHWATER SNAILS ACTING AS INTERMEDIATE HOSTS FOR ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT HELMINTH PARASITES IN SOUTH AFRICA
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: K.N. de Kock --- Department of Zoology, South Africa P.H. Joubert --- , South AfricaFour different kinds of tropical fish food from Tetra Werke, West Germany, as well as a mixture of two of these, were evaluated as possible nutrients for the laboratory culture and maintenance of four freshwater snail species of economic importance... -
Prosobranch mollusc species- and size-preferences of Sargochromis codringtonii (Cichlidae) in Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: J Brodersen MJ Chimbari H MadsenFrom the stomach contents of 28 wild-caught Sargochromis codringtonii from Lake Kariba the size and species of snails consumed were estimated from opercula found. An energetic cost/benefit ratio of the various sizes of the most frequent prey, Bellamya capillata, was... -
Louisiana crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) (Crustacea: Cambaridae) in Kenyan ponds: non-target effects of a potential biological control agent for schistosomiasis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: DavidM Lodge SadieK Rosenthal KennethM Mavuti Wairimu Muohi Philip Ochieng SamanthaS Stevens BenjaminN Mungai GeraldM MkojiThe Louisiana crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) has been proposed as a biological control agent for the intermediate snail hosts (Bulinus and Biomphalaria spp.) of human schistosomes (Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni) in Kenya. Using laboratory and field experiments, we examined the... -
Susceptibility of schistosome host snails to predation by sciomyzid flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Rajendra Maharaj Inbarani Naidoo ChristopherC AppletonAfrotropical sciomyzids are predators of freshwater pulmonate snails. Studies have indicated that these flies may play a role in controlling medically important (target) snail populations, especially snail intermediate hosts of schistosomes. This study investigated the preferential feeding of Sepedon scapularis... -
Distribution and habitats of Bulinus natalensis and its role as intermediate host of economically important helminth parasites in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: KennéN de Kock CorneliusT WolmaransThis article focusses on the geographical distribution and habitats of Bulinus natalensis, as reflected by the samples taken from 244 collection sites on record in the database of the National Freshwater Snail Collection (NFSC) at the Potchefstroom campus of the... -
Impact of Sargochromis codringtonii (Teleostei: Cichlidae) on pulmonate snails in irrigation ponds in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: MosesJ Chimbari Paul Makoni Henry MadsenThe impact of Sargochromis codringtonii on pulmonate snails, including those that transmit schistosomiasis, was assessed over 29 months in 2 800m2 irrigation ponds. Snail populations in fishless ponds were first monitored for 10 months before 85 S. codringtonii were introduced... -
Trematode infection among freshwater gastropods in Tessaout Amont irrigation system, Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Hammou Laamrani --- Ministry of Education, Morocco Eline Boelee --- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, the Netherlands Henry Madsen --- Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, DenmarkIn the summer of 1994 and the spring of 1995, a snail survey aimed at determining relationships between the distribution of molluscan fauna, various environmental factors and trematode infection was carried out in the Tessaout Amont irrigation system, Morocco. The... -
Freshwater snail distribution related to environmental factors in Banco National Park, an urban reserve in the Ivory Coast (West Africa)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: I.A. Camara --- Laboratoire d’Environnement et de Biologie Aquatique, Université d’Abobo-Adjamé, Y.K. Bony --- Laboratoire d’Environnement et de Biologie Aquatique, Université d’Abobo-Adjamé, D. Diomandé --- Laboratoire d’Environnement et de Biologie Aquatique, Université d’Abobo-Adjamé, O.E. Edia --- Laboratoire d’Environnement et de Biologie Aquatique, Université d’Abobo-Adjamé, F.K. Konan --- Laboratoire d’Environnement et de Biologie Aquatique, Université d’Abobo-Adjamé, C.N. Kouassi --- Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (CNRA), Programme Pêche et Aquaculture Continentales (PAC), G. Gouréne --- Laboratoire d’Environnement et de Biologie Aquatique, Université d’Abobo-Adjamé, J.P. Pointier --- Centre de Biologie et d’Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE, Université de Perpignan,Freshwater snails and environmental variables were studied at seven stations along the Banco River (Ivory Coast;West Africa) from March to October 2008. Two species (Physa marmorata (Physidae) and Bulinus forskalii (Planorbidae) were recorded only at one sampling site. This station... -
Molluscicidal and cercaricidal effects of Persicaria senegalensis on Radix natalensis snails and their echinostome-shed cercariae in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: MC Mathole --- Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa PH King --- Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South AfricaPersicaria senegalensis is an aquatic plant of the Family Polygonaceae with apparent molluscicidal properties. The research evaluated the molluscicidal effect of P. senegalensis on the freshwater snail Radix natalensis, and its echinostome-shed cercariae. Various compounds from Persicaria senegalensis were extracted... -
Molluscicidal effects of Persicaria senegalensis on terrestrial snails Cornu aspersum in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: MC Mathole --- Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa PH King --- Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South AfricaCornu aspersum is an invasive terrestrial snail pest of the family Helicidae. In South Africa, where the snail causes significant crop losses in viticulture areas, synthetic molluscicides are used to control them. However, the latter negatively affects both those who... -
Influence of water physico-chemical properties and vegetation type on the distribution of schistosomiasis intermediate host snails in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: PS Campbell --- Nelson Mandela University, South Africa JB Adams --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research and Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa M Thwala --- Nelson Mandela University, South Africa O Oyedele --- Nelson Mandela University, South Africa PE Melariri --- Nelson Mandela University, South AfricaSchistosomiasis is an infectious water-borne disease transmitted by Schistosoma flatworms. Humans become infected through skin penetration following exposure to water contaminated with schistosome cercariae. This study assessed the physico-chemical properties of the water bodies, vegetation type, distribution and habitat presence...