Bythinellidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Bythinellidae Locard, 1893 |
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Their minute shell is 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.[2]
Genera
editGenera in the family Bythinellidae include:
- Bythinella Moquin-Tandon, 1856
- Strandzhia Georgiev & Glöer, 2013
- Terrestribythinella Sitnikova, Starobogatov & V. Anistratenko, 1992
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Acrophlyctis Cossmann, 1888 †: synonym of Bythinella (Acrophlyctis) Cossmann, 1888 † represented as Bythinella Moquin-Tandon, 1856
- Bithinella [sic]: synonym of Bythinella Moquin-Tandon, 1856 (incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Bithynella Moquin-Tandon, 1856: synonym of Bythinella Moquin-Tandon, 1856 (incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Bythynella: synonym of Bythinella Moquin-Tandon, 1856 (invalid: incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Microna Frauenfeld, 1863: synonym of Bythinella Moquin-Tandon, 1856
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bythinellidae Locard, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724571 on 2020-06-27
- ^ Lilly, M.M. (1953). "The mode of life and the structure and functioning of the reproductive ducts of Bithynia tentaculata (L.)". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 30 (4–5): 87–110.
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