Lorenzo Diéguez Fernández¹, Milton Vinicio Monzón Muñoz², David del Valle Laveaga³, Néstor Navarro Guerra⁴ and Rigoberto Fimia Duarte⁵

¹Faculty Technological, University of Medical Sciences of Camaguey, Cuba
²Vector Control Department. Jutiapa Health Area, Guatemala
³Regional High Specialty Hospital (HARE), Dr. Juan Graham Casasús, México
⁴Camagüey Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology (PCHEM), Cuba
⁵Faculty of Health Technology and Nursing (FHTN), University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara (UMS-VC), Cuba

*Corresponding Author: Rigoberto Fimia Duarte, Faculty of Health Technology and Nursing (FHTN), University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara (UMS-VC), Cuba.

Received: April 19, 2023; Published: April 26, 2023

Abstract

The presence of the freshwater mollusk Marisa cornuarietis (Linné, 1758) (Subclase Caenogastropoda) in Jutiapa Department (Guatemala) is reported for the first time. The five specimens with different stages of growth were captured in the Güija Lagoon belonging to the "El Güayabo" Village, Asunción Mita municipality.

Keywords: Freshwater Mollusk; Jutiapa; Marisa cornuarietis; Specimens

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Citation

Citation: Rigoberto Fimia Duarte., et al. “First Record of Marisa Cornuarietis (Linné, 1758) in Jutiapa, Guatemala". Acta Scientific Veterinary Sciences 5.5 (2023): 50-52.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2023 Rigoberto Fimia Duarte., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.