Bythinella austriaca
| Bythinella austriaca | |
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| Two live specimens of Bythinella austriaca | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Amnicolidae |
| Subfamily: | Amnicolinae |
| Genus: | Bythinella |
| Species: | B. austriaca |
| Binomial name | |
| Bythinella austriaca (von Frauenfeld, 1857)[2] | |
Bythinella austriaca is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Amnicolidae.
Distribution
The distribution of this species is Carpathian (eastern alpine and Carpathian).[3]
This species occurs in:
- Bulgaria
- Czech Republic[4] - it lives mainly in Moravia and in eastern Bohemia, but there are also islolated populations near Prague[5]
- Germany - lives only in Bayern and is endangered (Gefährdet)[6]
- Poland
- Slovakia[4]
Drawing of the apertural view of the shell of Bythinella austriaca
Habitat
Bythinella austriaca lives in springs and in brooks near springs.
References
- ↑ Feher Z., Haase M. & Reischutz P. (2010). "'Bythinella austriaca". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 August 2014.
- ↑ Frauenfeld G. von (1857). Über die Paludinen aus der Gruppe der Paludina viridis Poir. Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. mathem.-naturwiss. Classe, 22(2): 569-578, 1 Table, Vienna, page 574.
- ↑ (Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- 1 2 (Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
- ↑ (Czech) Beran L. (2010). Izolované populace praménky Bythinella austriaca (Frauenfeld, 1857) (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) v okolí Prahy. [Isolated populations of Bythinella austriaca (Frauenfeld, 1857) (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) in Prague surroundings (Czech Republic)]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 9: 5–10. PDF
- ↑ (German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
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