Parafossarulus striatulus

Parafossarulus striatulus is a species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.^[2]

Parafossarulus striatulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Bithyniidae
Genus:	Parafossarulus
Species:	P. striatulus
Binomial name
Parafossarulus striatulus (Benson, 1842)[1]
Synonyms
Paludina striatula Benson, 1842

Parafossarulus striatulus is the type species of the genus Parafossarulus.

Distribution

This species occurs in:

• northern Vietnam,^[3]
• Shandong Province,^[4] Hunan province^[5] in China.

Parasites

Parafossarulus striatulus is a host for:

• Clonorchis sinensis^[6]
• Metorchis orientalis^[7]
• Echinochasmus japonicus^[8]

Parafossarulus striatulus serves as the first intermediate host for trematode Holostephanus sp. 2 and for Pleurogenidae gen. sp. 2.^[3]