Bithynia bavelensis is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
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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The specific name bavelensis refers to its type locality, the village Bavel, Netherlands.
Distribution
editThe distribution of this species includes an Early Pleistocene of the Netherlands.[1]
Description
editReferences
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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.