Bithynia (gastropod)

Bithynia
Bithynia tentaculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Bithynia
Leach, 1818[1]
Type species
Helix tentaculata
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Bithinia Leach, 1818 (misspelling)
  • Bithynia (Bithynia) Leach, 1818 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Bithynia (Digoniostoma) Annandale, 1920 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Bithynia (Gabbia) Tryon, 1865 · accepted, alternate representation
  • †Bithynia (Pseudemmericia) Schlickum, 1968
  • Bulimus Scopoli, 1777 (invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
  • Bulimus (Bulimus) Scopoli, 1777 (genus invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
  • Bythinia Stein, 1850 (invalid: unjustified emendation of Bithynia; placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
  • Digoniostoma Annandale, 1920
  • Digyrcidum Locard, 1882
  • Gabbia Tryon, 1865
  • Paraelona Beriozkina & Starobogatov, 1994

Bithynia is a genus of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.[2]

The diploid chromosome number of Bithynia sp. from Egypt is 2n=32.[3]

  1. ^ Abel C. (1818). Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817; containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the court of Pekin, and observations on the countries which it visited. Illustrated by maps and other engravings. pp. i-xvi [= 1-16], 1-420, pl. [1-22]. London. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown). Bithynia at page 362.
  2. ^ a b 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 Archived 2016-10-12 at the Wayback Machine on 2014-11-19
  3. ^ Tohamy A. A. & Mohamed S. M. (2006). "Chromosomal studies on two Egyptian freshwater snails, Cleopatra and Bithynia (Mollusca-Prosobranchiata)". Arab J. Biotech. 9(1): 17-26. PDF Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine.