Bithyniidae

Bithyniidae
Bithynia tentaculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Bithyniidae Gray, 1857
Genera
See text
Diversity [1]
about 130 freshwater species

Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the [[[Order (biology)|order]] Littorinimorpha. ^[2]

Their shells are very small and often colored. They are characterized by a calcareous operculum, a lobe on the upper surface of the neck. The ctenidium, the respiratory gill-comb, is very broad. They have a ciliary feeding habit. The kidney has a large extension towards the mantle. ^[3]

Genera

Genera in the family Bithyniidae include:

• Alocinna Annandale & Prashad, 1919
• Bithynia Leach, 1818 - type genus ^[4]
  • Subgenus Bithynia Leach, 1818
  • Subgenus Codiella Locard, 1894 ^[4]
• † Celekenia Andrusov, 1902
• Boreoelona Starobogatov & Streletzkaja, 1967 ^[5]
• Congodoma Mandahl-Barth, 1968
• † Daciella Wenz, 1942
• Digoniostoma Annandale, 1920
• Emmericiopsis Thiele, 1928
• † Euchilus Sandberger, 1870
• † Ferebithynia Kókay, 2006
• Funduella Mandahl-Barth, 1968
• Gabbiella Mandahl-Barth, 1968
• Hydrobioides Nevill, 1884
• Incertihydrobia Verdcourt, 1958
• Jubaia Mandahl-Barth, 1968
• Limnitesta Mandahl-Barth, 1974
• Myosorella Annandale, 1919
• Neosataria Kulkarni & Khot, 2015
• Neumayria de Stefani, 1877
• Parabithynia Pilsbry, 1928
• Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924
• Pseudobithynia Glöer & Pešić, 2006 ^[6]
• Pseudovivipara Annandale, 1918
• Sierraia Conolly, 1929
• † Tylopoma Brusina, 1882
• Wattebledia Crosse, 1886

Genera brought into synonymy

• Bithinia Leach, 1818: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
• Bulimus Scopoli, 1777: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
• Bythinia Stein, 1850: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
• Digyrcidum Locard, 1882: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
• Gabbia Tryon, 1865: synonym of Bithynia (Gabbia) Tryon, 1865 represented as Bithynia Leach, 1818
• Paraelona Beriozkina & Starobogatov, 1994: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818

References

1. Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Bithyniidae Gray, 1857. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182697 on 2016-02-28
3. Lilly, M.M. (1953). "The mode of life and the structure and functioning of the reproductive ducts of Bithynia tentaculata (L.)". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 30 (4–5): 87–110.
4. Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN   3-925919-60-0. Reference for subgenera of genus Bithynia.
5. (in Russian) Lazutkina E. A., Andreyeva S. I. & Andreyev N. I. (2010). " [Boreoelona sibirica (Westerlund, 1886) (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Bithynidae) in the waterbodies of Western Siberia and Middle Urals]". Ruthenica20(2): 103-108. PDF Archived 2020-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
6. Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2006). "On the identity of Bithynia graeca Westerlund, 1879 with the description of three new Pseudobithynia n. gen. species from Iran and Greece (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae)". Malakologische Abhandlungen 24: 29-36. Dresden. PDF.

• Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149–166. hdl : 10088/7390 doi : 10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6

External links

• Worldwide Mollusk Species Database: Bithyniidae