Bithynia (gastropod)

Bithynia
Bithynia tentaculata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Bithynia
Leach, 1818
Type species
Helix tentaculata
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Bithinia Leach, 1818 (misspelling)
  • Bithynia (Bithynia) Leach, 1818 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Bithynia (Digoniostoma) Annandale, 1920 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Bithynia (Gabbia) Tryon, 1865 · accepted, alternate representation
  • †Bithynia (Pseudemmericia) Schlickum, 1968
  • Bulimus Scopoli, 1777 (invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
  • Bulimus (Bulimus) Scopoli, 1777 (genus invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
  • Bythinia Stein, 1850 (invalid: unjustified emendation of Bithynia; placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
  • Digoniostoma Annandale, 1920
  • Digyrcidum Locard, 1882
  • Gabbia Tryon, 1865
  • Paraelona Beriozkina & Starobogatov, 1994

Bithynia is a genus of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.

The diploid chromosome number of Bithynia sp. from Egypt is 2n=32.

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