Overview
- A global and updated overview of a snail family that has enormous practical significance
- Aimed at experts of various disciplines, from taxonomy to paleobiology, and from veterinary parasitology to limnology
- Useful for all practitioners who need an authoritative and reliable source of information on lymnaeid snails
Part of the book series: Zoological Monographs (ZM, volume 7)
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About this book
This contributed volume is aimed at experts and practitioners in various disciplines: Invertebrate zoology, evolutionary biology, biogeography, aquatic ecology, parasitology, epidemiology and public health. It is also useful for university lecturers, undergraduate and postgraduate students.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Antonio A. Vázquez is Associate Professor and the Head of the Laboratory of Malacology at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Havana, Cuba, and a researcher at MIVEGEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France. He has carried out several studies on the ecology, evolution, taxonomy, conservation and parasitology of freshwater snails. He has contributed to over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters related to malacology. Most of his field and experimental studies focus on the Lymnaeidae in countries from Latin America and Europe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Lymnaeidae
Book Subtitle: A Handbook on Their Natural History and Parasitological Significance
Editors: Maxim V. Vinarski, Antonio A. Vázquez
Series Title: Zoological Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30292-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30291-6Published: 30 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30294-7Due: 13 December 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30292-3Published: 29 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2523-3904
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3912
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 477
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour
Topics: Zoology, Parasitology, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology