Borysthenia naticina

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Borysthenia naticina
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Subfossil shells
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Valvatidae
Genus: Borysthenia
Species:
B. naticina
Binomial name
Borysthenia naticina
(Menke, 1845) [2]
Synonyms
  • Valvata naticinaMenke, 1845
  • Valvata jelskiiCrosse, 1863

Borysthenia naticina is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Pontic and Baltic regions as follows: [3]

Habitat

This is a freshwater species.

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References

  1. Seddon M. B. (2014). "Borysthenia naticina". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 August 2014.
  2. (in German) Menke K. T. (1845). "Kritische Übersicht der lebenden Valvata-Arten". Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 1845(8): 115-130. Hannover.
  3. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  4. (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN   3-923376-02-2
  5. (in Polish) pl:Polska Czerwona Księga Zwierząt - Bezkręgowce
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  7. (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca , Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.