Bithyniidae

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Bithyniidae
Bithynia tentaculata.jpg
Bithynia tentaculata
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
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 clade Littorinimorpha.[2]

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[]

Genera in the family Bithyniidae include:

  • Annandale & Prashad, 1919
  • Bithynia Leach, 1818 - type genus[4]
    • Subgenus Bithynia Leach, 1818
    • Subgenus Locard, 1894[4]
  • † Andrusov, 1902
  • Boreoelona Starobogatov & Streletzkaja, 1967[5]
  • Mandahl-Barth, 1968
  • † Wenz, 1942
  • Annandale, 1920
  • Thiele, 1928
  • † Sandberger, 1870
  • † Kókay, 2006
  • Mandahl-Barth, 1968
  • Gabbiella Mandahl-Barth, 1968
  • Hydrobioides Nevill, 1884
  • Verdcourt, 1958
  • Mandahl-Barth, 1968
  • Mandahl-Barth, 1974
  • Annandale, 1919
  • Kulkarni & Khot, 2015
  • de Stefani, 1877
  • Pilsbry, 1928
  • Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924
  • Pseudobithynia Glöer & Pešić, 2006[6]
  • Annandale, 1918
  • Sierraia Conolly, 1929
  • † 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. ^ 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
  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. ^ 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.
  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]". Ruthenica 20(2): 103-108. PDF
  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)". 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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