Borysthenia

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Borysthenia
Temporal range: at least from Middle Pleistocene [1] -Recent
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Borysthenia naticina shell.jpg
Subfossil shells of Borysthenia naticina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Valvatidae
Genus: Borysthenia
Lindholm, 1913 [2]

Borysthenia is a genus of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

The aperture of Borysthenia is not circular. [3] Animals are ovoviviparous. [3]

Species

The genus Borysthenia contains the following species:

References

  1. 1 2 Kondrashov P. E. (2007). "New gastropod species from the Pleistocene of the Upper Don basin". Paleontological Journal 41(5): 513-519. doi : 10.1134/S0031030107050061.
  2. ↑ Lindholm W. A. (1913). "Miszellen zur Malakozoologie des Russischen Reiches. I-XIII." Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk - Annuaire due Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg18(1): 151-167. page 167.
  3. 1 2 3 "Genus summary for Borysthenia". AnimalBase, last modified 28 February 2009, accessed 22 May 2011.
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