Jaume-Ramis Sebastià, Martínez-Ortí Alberto
Museu Valencià d'Història Natural and i\Biotaxa, l'Hort de Feliu-Alginet, Alginet, P.O. Box 8460, 46018, Valencia, Spain.
Unit of Sanitary Parasitology, Department of FTF and Parasitology, Faculty of Farmacy, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain.
Acta Parasitol. 2021 Dec;66(4):1251-1266. doi: 10.1007/s11686-021-00390-8. Epub 2021 Apr 25.
Opisthorchis felineus and Metorchis bilis are trematodes that cause opisthorchiasis and metorchiasis, respectively. The freshwater snails Bithynia hispanica and B. tentaculata are the respective intermediate hosts for these parasites in the Iberian Peninsula, where both parasites are present.
To study the distribution of these snail species, an exhaustive literature review and revision of museum collections was performed.
A total of 370 localities were compiled and mapped. B. tentaculata were found throughout the Iberian Peninsula, both in Spain and Portugal, while B. hispanica was found only in the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
Knowing the distribution of the Bithynia species found in the Iberian Peninsula is highlighted in terms of public health, as the presence of the snail is related to the presence of the disease and can be used as a tool to face future outbreaks.
猫后睾吸虫和胆阔盘吸虫分别是引起后睾吸虫病和阔盘吸虫病的吸虫。在伊比利亚半岛，淡水螺西班牙豆螺和有触角豆螺分别是这些寄生虫的中间宿主，两种寄生虫在该地区均有存在。
为研究这些螺类的分布情况，我们进行了详尽的文献综述并对博物馆馆藏标本进行了核查。
共收集并绘制了370个地点的分布图。有触角豆螺在伊比利亚半岛的西班牙和葡萄牙均有发现，而西班牙豆螺仅在西班牙的地中海沿岸被发现。
了解伊比利亚半岛发现的豆螺种类的分布情况对公共卫生具有重要意义，因为螺类的存在与疾病的存在相关，可作为应对未来疫情爆发的工具。
