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Bithynia fuchsiana

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Rissooidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Bithyniidae

Genus
  
Bithynia

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Similar
  
Bithynia, Parafossarulus, Parafossarulus manchouricus, Bithyniidae, Thiara scabra

Bithynia fuchsiana is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

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Distribution

Distribution of this species includes:

  • southern and eastern China
  • Taiwan
  • the Red River delta, Vietnam
  • Ecology

    Bithynia fuchsiana inhabits lentic habitats such as lakes, rice fields, ponds and others.

    Bithynia fuchsiana serves as the first intermediate host for the trematode Clonorchis sinensis.

    References

    Bithynia fuchsiana Wikipedia