Population dynamics of Melanoides tuberculata (Thiaridae) snails in a desert spring, United Arab Emirates and infection with larval trematodes

Abstract

A dense population of Melanoides tuberculata was found at a brackish (5.93-6.98x) desert spring in the United Arab Emirates. A total of 232-300 snails were measured and examined for larval trematodes during the period

The influence of chemical cues and conspecific density on the temperature selection of a freshwater snail (Melanoides tuberculata)

“…The width of the thermal niche of M. tuberculata was similar to that of other freshwater animals including fishes and crayfish (Magnuson et al, 1979;Kivivuori, 1994). Our values are somewhat lower than the water temperatures from 20 to 31 1C typically inhabited by native and non-native populations of this species around the world (Ismail and Arif, 1993;Duggan, 2002;Rader et al, 2003). Similar temperature preferences have been documented for other freshwater gastropods.…”

Growth models and shell morphometrics of two populations of Melanoides tuberculata (Thiaridae) living in hot springs and freshwater pools

“…Livshits and Fishelson (1983) reported that M. tuberculata snails are mainly algivorous or detrivorous. In relatively warm water at a desert spring in United Arab Emirates (29.0-31.0 o C) M. tuberculata snails reached 26.0 mm in length (Ismail & Arif 1993). Pointier (1993) reported that M. tuberculata snails from the marshy forest zone of Guadeloupe, French West Indies, reached a length of 10 mm after 4.5 months, 15 mm after 14 months, and in more than 30 months they reached 20 mm.…”

“…1988;Ismail 1990;Ismail & Arif 1991). This feature has attracted the attention to study its population dynamics, and reproduction (Livshits & Fishelson 1983;Dudgeon 1986;Ismail & Arif 1993).…”

Temperature Tolerance of Red‐Rim Melania Melanoides tuberculatus, an Exotic Aquatic Snail Established in the United States

“…Scale bar is 10 mm. of the red-rim melania in Morocco (Laamrani et al 1997), New Zealand (Duggan 2002), United Arab Emirates (Ismail and Arif 1993), and USA (Mitchell et al 2000;Fleming 2002) inhabited springs with temperatures between 21ЊC and 31ЊC.…”