Bithyniidae

Short description: Family of gastropods

Bithyniidae

Bithynia tentaculata
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:  | [[Biology:|Rissooidea]]
Family:  | Bithyniidae
Gray, 1857
Genera

See text

Diversity[1]
about 130 freshwater species

Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.[2]

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.[3]

## Genera

Genera in the family Bithyniidae include:

* Alocinna Annandale & Prashad, 1919
* Bithynia Leach, 1818 - type genus[4]
* Subgenus Bithynia Leach, 1818
* Subgenus Codiella Locard, 1894[4]
* † Celekenia Andrusov, 1902
* Boreoelona Starobogatov & Streletzkaja, 1967[5]
* Congodoma Mandahl-Barth, 1968
* † Daciella Wenz, 1942
* Digoniostoma Annandale, 1920
* Emmericiopsis Thiele, 1928
* † Euchilus Sandberger, 1870
* † Ferebithynia Kókay, 2006
* Funduella Mandahl-Barth, 1968
* Gabbiella Mandahl-Barth, 1968
* Hydrobioides Nevill, 1884
* Incertihydrobia Verdcourt, 1958
* Jubaia Mandahl-Barth, 1968
* Limnitesta Mandahl-Barth, 1974
* Myosorella Annandale, 1919
* Neosataria Kulkarni & Khot, 2015
* Neumayria de Stefani, 1877
* Parabithynia Pilsbry, 1928
* Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924
* Pseudobithynia Glöer & Pešić, 2006[6]
* Pseudovivipara Annandale, 1918
* Sierraia Conolly, 1929
* † Tylopoma Brusina, 1882
* Wattebledia Crosse, 1886

Genera brought into synonymy

* Bithinia Leach, 1818: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
* Bulimus Scopoli, 1777: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
* Bythinia Stein, 1850: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
* Digyrcidum Locard, 1882: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
* Gabbia Tryon, 1865: synonym of Bithynia (Gabbia) Tryon, 1865 represented as Bithynia Leach, 1818
* Paraelona Beriozkina & Starobogatov, 1994: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818

## References

1. ↑ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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
3. ↑ Lilly, M.M. (1953). "The mode of life and the structure and functioning of the reproductive ducts of Bithynia tentaculata (L.)". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 30 (4–5): 87–110.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN:3-925919-60-0. Reference for subgenera of genus Bithynia.
5. ↑ (in Russian) Lazutkina E. A., Andreyeva S. I. & Andreyev N. I. (2010). " [Boreoelona sibirica (Westerlund, 1886) (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Bithynidae) in the waterbodies of Western Siberia and Middle Urals]". Ruthenica 20(2): 103-108. PDF
6. ↑ 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.

* Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6

## External links

* Worldwide Mollusk Species Database: Bithyniidae

Wikidata ☰ Q1509697 entry

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