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Bithynia transsilvanica

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Rissooidea

Genus
  
Bithynia

Scientific name
  
Bithynia troschelii

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Bithyniidae

Subgenus
  
Codiella

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Bithynia transsilvanica

Similar
  
Bithynia, Bithynia leachii, Radix ampla, Stagnicola corvus, Bithyniidae

Bithynia transsilvanica is species of freshwater snail, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

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Taxonomy

It was sometimes considered to be an eastern subspecies of Bithynia leachii, and then it was known as Bithynia leachii troschelii.

Specific epithet troschelii of its synonym is in honor of German zoologist Franz Hermann Troschel.

Distribution

  • Czech Republic - It was thought to be locally extinct in Moravia and was considered as regionally extinct in the Czech Republic (RE). There were rediscovered populations in southern Moravia near Lednice and from Nesyt pond in 2008. It was also discovered in Bohemia as a non-indigenous.
  • Slovakia
  • Germany - Recorded in Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony and Thuringia. It is considered as high endangered (Stark gefährdet) in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and in Lower Saxony.
  • Hungary
  • ...
  • Description

    Height of shell: 9-11 mm. Width of shell: 5-6 mm.

    Habitat

    Freshwater species.

    References

    Bithynia transsilvanica Wikipedia