Bithyniidae
Family of gastropods
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Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the [[[Order (biology)|order]] Littorinimorpha.[2]
| Bithyniidae | |
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| Bithynia tentaculata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Bithyniidae Gray, 1857 |
| Genera | |
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| Diversity[1] | |
| about 130 freshwater species | |
Their shells are very small and 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
