Bithynia bavelensis
Appearance
Bithynia bavelensis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Bithyniidae |
Genus: | Bithynia |
Species: | B. bavelensis
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Binomial name | |
Bithynia bavelensis Meijer, 1990
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Bithynia bavelensis is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
The specific name bavelensis refers to its type locality, the village Bavel, Netherlands.
Distribution
[edit]The distribution of this species includes an Early Pleistocene of the Netherlands.[1]
Description
[edit]References
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- ^ a b Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 89.