Bithynia transsilvanica

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Bithynia transsilvanica
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Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Bithynia
Species:
B. transsilvanica
Binomial name
Bithynia transsilvanica
(Bielz, 1853) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Bithynia leachii troschelii
  • Bithynia troschelii(Paasch, 1842) [3]

Bithynia transsilvanica is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae. [4]

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Taxonomy

It was sometimes considered to be an eastern subspecies of Bithynia leachii , and then it was known as Bithynia leachii troschelii.

Specific epithet troschelii of its synonym is in honor of German zoologist Franz Hermann Troschel.

Distribution

Description

Operculum of Bithynia transsilvanica Bithynia transsilvanica operculum.png
Operculum of Bithynia transsilvanica

Height of shell: 9–11 mm. Width of shell: 5–6 mm.

Habitat

Freshwater species.

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References

  1. (in German) Bielz E. A. (1853). "Beitrag zur Kenntniss der siebenbürgischen Land- und Süsswassermollusken". Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften in Hermannstadt 4(7): 113-124, 162-165.
  2. "Species summary for Bithynia transsilvanica". AnimalBase, last modified 26 October 2013, accessed 26 April 2016.
  3. (in German) Paasch A. (1842). "Beschreibung einer neuen bei Berlin gefundenen Paludina". Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 300-301, Tab. 6. Berlin.
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