Standardized protocol for laboratory rearing and breeding of the Lymnaeidae snail, Radix natalensis (Krauss, 1848).

ABSTRACT: Freshwater lymnaeid snails are involved in the transmission of fascioliasis in tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia, as well as in temperate regions. This study improved and standardized laboratory rearing and breeding of first-generation (F1) R. natalensis using field-collected F0 snails. Ninety field-collected R. natalensis adult snails with shell heights of 4-5 mm were divided into three experimental treatment groups: A, B, and C. Each experimental treatment group comprised of ten (10) 2L containers, with each containing 3 snails. Group A, the control, was fed Elodea sp. weed powder and Cyperus papyrus twigs from snail-sampling sites as oviposition material. Group A containers were filled with water from the snail sample sites. Spring-watered snails in experimental group B were fed wit

SUBMITTER: Dube A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12558528 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature