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Bithyniidae
Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Bithyniidae Gray, 1857. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182697 on 2016-02-28 Their minute shell is often colored. They are characterized by a calcareous operculum, a lobe on the upper surface of the neck. The ctenidium, the respiratory gill-comb, is very broad. They have a ciliary feeding habit. The kidney has a large extension towards the mantle. Genera Genera in the family Bithyniidae include: * '' Alocinna'' Annandale & Prashad, 1919 * ''Bithynia'' Leach, 1818 - type genusGlöer P. (2002). ''Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas''. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., . Reference for subgenera of genus ''Bithynia''. ** Subgenus ''Bithynia'' Leach, 1818 ** Subgenus '' Codiella'' Locard ...
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Bithynia (gastropod)
''Bithynia'' is a genus of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Bithynia Leach, 1818. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182698 on 2014-11-19 The diploid chromosome number of ''Bithynia'' sp. from Egypt is 2n=32.Tohamy A. A. & Mohamed S. M. (2006). "Chromosomal studies on two Egyptian freshwater snails, ''Cleopatra'' and ''Bithynia'' (Mollusca-Prosobranchiata)". ''Arab J. Biotech.'' 9(1): 17-26PDF. Distribution Lake Skadar with five species of ''Bithynia'' is a biodiversity hotspot of ''Bithynia'' evolution.Pešić V. & Glöer P. (2013). "A new freshwater snail genus (Hydrobiidae, Gastropoda) from Montenegro, with a discussion on gastropod diversity and endemism in Skadar Lake". ''ZooKeys'' 281: 69-90. Species Glöer (2002)Glöer P. (2002). ''Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas''. Die Tier ...
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Freshwater Snail
Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks that live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs to major rivers. The great majority of freshwater gastropods have a gastropod shell, shell, with very few exceptions. Some groups of snails that live in freshwater Respiratory system, respire using gills, whereas Pulmonata, other groups need to reach the surface to breathe air. In addition, some are amphibious and have both gills and a lung (e.g. ''Ampullariidae''). Most feed on algae, but many are detritivores and some are Filter feeding, filter feeders. Freshwater snails are indirectly among the deadliest animals to humans, as they carry parasitic worms that cause schistosomiasis, a disease estimated to kill between 10,000 and 200,000 people annually. There are thousands of known species, and at least 33–38 independent Lineage (evolut ...
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Bithynia Tentaculata
''Bithynia tentaculata'', common names the mud bithynia or common bithynia, or faucet snailKipp R. M. & Benson A. (2008). ''Bithynia tentaculata''. United States Geological Survey, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL. https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=987 Revision Date: 2/28/2007. is a relatively small species of freshwater snail with gills and an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, an Aquatic animal, aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Bithyniidae. Taxonomy ''Bithynia tentaculata'' is the type species of the genus ''Bithynia''. Forms of ''Bithynia tentaculata'' include: * ''Bithynia tentaculata'' f. ''codia'' * ''Bithynia tentaculata'' f. ''excavata'' * ''Bithynia tentaculata'' f. ''gigas'' * ''Bithynia tentaculata'' f. ''producta'' Menke, 1828 * † ''Bithynia tentaculata tellinii'' Sacco, 1886 The variety † ''Bithynia tentaculata'' var. ''allobrogica'' Fontannes, 1881: synonym of † ''Bithyn ...
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Hydrobioides
''Hydrobioides'' is a genus of a freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Bithyniidae Gray, 1857. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Ma .... Distribution of this genus include Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. Species *'' Hydrobioides nana'' Annandale, 1918 *'' Hydrobioides nassa '' (Theobald, 1865) *'' Hydrobioides turrita'' Blanford, 1869 - type species References Bithyniidae {{Bithyniidae-stub ...
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Gabbiella
''Gabbiella'' is an East African genus of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Bithyniidae Gray, 1857. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Ma .... Species Species in the genus ''Gabbiella'' include: * '' Gabbiella balovalensis'' * '' Gabbiella humerosa'' * '' Gabbiella rosea'' * '' Gabbiella stanleyi'' References Bithyniidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Bithyniidae-stub ...
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Littorinimorpha
Littorinimorpha is a large order of snails, gastropods, consisting primarily of sea snails ( marine species), but also including some freshwater snails ( limnic species) and land snails ( terrestrial species).Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. ''Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families''. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. . . 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278 Previously, the Linnaean taxonomy used in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Ponder & Lindberg (1997) ranked like this: subclass Orthogastropoda, superorder Caenogastropoda, order Sorbeoconcha, suborder Hypsogastropoda, infraorder Littorinimorpha. The order Littorinimorpha contains many gastropod families that were formerly placed in the order Mesogastropoda, as introduced by J. Thiele in his work from 1921. Evidence for this group being monophyletic is scanty. In ...
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Boreoelona
''Boreoelona'' is a genus of gastropods in the family Bithyniidae Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Bithyniidae Gray, 1857. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Ma .... Species *'' Boreoelona caerulans'' (Westerlund, 1896)Westerlund, C. A. (1896). Neue centralasiatische Mollusken. ''Yezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk'', 1, 181–198. *'' Boreoelona contortrix'' (Lindholm, 1909)Lindholm, W. A. (1909). Die Mollusken des Baikal-Sees (Gastropoda et Pelecypoda), systematisch und zoogeographisch bearbeitet. In ''Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Baikal-See unter Leitung des Professors Alexis Korotneff in den Jahren 1900–1902'', 4. *'' Boreoelona lindholmiana'' (Starobogatov & Streletzkaja, 1967) References Bithyniidae Gastropod genera {{caenogastropoda-stub ...
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Winston Ponder
Winston Frank Ponder (born 1941) is a malacologist born and educated in New Zealand who has named and described many marine and freshwater animals, especially micromolluscs. Education and career Ponder graduated with an MSc, PhD (1968) and DSc from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He completed his Ph.D while working at the Dominion Museum but by 1969 he had taken a position at the Australian Museum, where he has remained. Ponder was the principal research scientist in the malacology section of the Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia and helped to build up the museum's mollusc collection so that it became one of the most extensive of its kind in the world. Ponder retired from this post after a long career of more than forty years of research on molluscs, and is now an Honorary Fellow of the museum. He has been the president of the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists, and was the managing editor of the journal ''Molluscan Research'' of the Malacological Soci ...
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