Borysthenia naticina

Borysthenia naticina is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

Borysthenia naticina
subfossil shells of Borysthenia naticina
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily:	Valvatoidea
Family:	Valvatidae
Genus:	Borysthenia
Species:	B. naticina
Binomial name
Borysthenia naticina (Menke, 1845)[2]
Synonyms
Valvata naticina Menke, 1845 Valvata jelskii Crosse, 1863

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pontic and Baltic regions as follows:[3]

• Germany - critically endangered (vom Aussterben bedroht)[4]
• Poland - critically endangered[5][6]
• Slovakia[7]

Habitat

This is a freshwater species.

References

1. Seddon M. B. (2014). "Borysthenia naticina". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 August 2014.
2. (in German) Menke K. T. (1845). "Kritische Übersicht der lebenden Valvata-Arten". Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 1845(8): 115-130. Hannover.
3. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
4. (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
5. (in Polish) pl:Polska Czerwona Księga Zwierząt - Bezkręgowce
6. Andrzej Piechocki. "Borysthenia naticina (Menke, 1845)". Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.
7. (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.