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| Bithynia fuchsiana | |
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| Live Bithynia fuchsiana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Bithyniidae |
| Genus: | Bithynia |
| Species: | B. fuchsiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Bithynia fuchsiana (Möllendorff, 1888)
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Bithynia fuchsiana is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum. It an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
Distribution of this species includes:
Bithynia fuchsiana inhabits lentic habitats such as lakes, rice fields, ponds and others.[1] It serves as the first intermediate host for the trematode Clonorchis sinensis.[2]