Pseudobithynia renei

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

Pseudobithynia renei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Bithyniidae
Genus:
Pseudobithynia
Species:
P. renei
Binomial name
Pseudobithynia renei
(Letourneux, 1887)[2]
Synonyms[3]

Digyreidum renei Letourneux, 1887
Bithynia renei (Letourneux, 1887)

Distribution

The distribution of this species includes:

The type locality is (in French language) "Marais de Cressida près Corfou", Corfu, Greece.[2][3]

Description

The width of the shell is 4 mm.[2] The height of the shell is 6 mm.[2]

References
  1. Seddon M. (2011). "Pseudobithynia renei". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 1 January 2013.
  2. Letourneux A. (1887). "Apercu monographique sur le genre Digyreidum". Bulletins de la Société malacologique de France 4: 67-72. page 70.
  3. 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)". Malakologische Abhandlungen 24: 29-36. Dresden. PDF.
  • Locard A. (1894). "Les Bythinia du système européen. Revision des espèces appartenant à ce genre d’après la collection BOURGUIGNAT". Revue suisse de Zoologie 2(1): 65-134, plates 5–6. Page 89, plate VI, fig. 19.


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