Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.[2]
| Bithyniidae | |
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| Bithynia tentaculata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Bithyniidae Gray, 1857 |
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| Diversity[1] | |
| about 130 freshwater species | |
Their minute shell is 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
editGenera in the family Bithyniidae include:
- Alocinna Annandale & Prashad, 1919
- Bithynia Leach, 1818 - type genus[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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ (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]". Ruthenica 20(2): 103-108. PDF Archived 2020-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 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
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