Bithynia transsilvanica

Bithynia transsilvanica
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Bithynia
Subgenus: Codiella
Species: B. transsilvanica
Binomial name
Bithynia transsilvanica
(Bielz, 1853)[2]
Synonyms[3]

Bithynia leachii troschelii
Bithynia troschelii (Paasch, 1842)[4]

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

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

Description

Operculum of Bithynia transsilvanica.

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

Habitat

Freshwater species.

References

  1. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 August 2014.
  2. (German) Bielz E. A. (1853). "Beitrag zur Kenntniss der siebenbürgischen Land- und Süsswassermollusken". Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften in Hermannstadt 4(7): 113-124, 162-165.
  3. "Species summary for Bithynia transsilvanica". AnimalBase, last modified 26 October 2013, accessed 26 April 2016.
  4. (German) Paasch A. (1842). "Beschreibung einer neuen bei Berlin gefundenen Paludina". Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 300-301, Tab. 6. Berlin.
  5. (Czech) Beran L., Juřičková L. & Horsák M. (2005). Mollusca (měkkýši), pp. 69-74. In: Farkač J., Král D. & Škorpík M. [eds.], Červený seznam ohrožených druhů České republiky. Bezobratlí. Red list of threatened species in the Czech Republic. Invertebrates. – Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR, Praha, 760 pp.
  6. Beran L. & Horsák M. (2009). "Distribution of Bithynia leachii (Sheppard, 1823) and Bithynia troschelii (Paasch, 1842) (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae) in the Czech Republic". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 8: 19-23. PDF.
  7. 1 2 (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.
  8. (German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
  9. Glöer P. & Fehér Z. (2004). "Bithynia leachii (Sheppard, 1823) and Bithynia troschelii (Paasch, 1842) in Hungary (Prosobranchia: Bithyniidae)". Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici 96: 285–297.

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