Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Bithyniidae Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Rissooidea Genus Pseudobithynia | |
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Pseudobithynia pentheri is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
The specific name pentheri is in honor of malacologist Arnold Penther, who collected this species.
Glöer & Yildrim (2006) moved this species from the genus Bythinia to the genus Pseudobithynia in 2006.
Distribution
This species is endemic to Turkey.
The type locality is "Vilayet Kayseri. Soisaly 1075 m ü.M".
References
Pseudobithynia pentheri Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA