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Simulium damnosum

Synonyms: Edwardsellum cingulatum

Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Rivers and Streams
Diet [1]  Omnivore

Prey / Diet

Homo sapiens (man)[2]

Predators

Synodontis comoensis (Catfish)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Onchocerca ochengi[4]
Onchocerca ramachandrini[4]
Onchocerca volvulus[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3First results of a study of the feeding habits of Synodontis comoensis (Siluriformes: Mochokidae) in a West African river (Comoé River, Comoé National Park, Côte d’Ivoire), Tidiani Koné, Essétchi P. Kouamélan, Stanislas S. Yao, Valentin N’Douba, Frans Ollevier, Aquat Ecol (2008) 42:35–42
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0