Bithyniidae
Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.
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
Genera in the family Bithyniidae include:
- Alocinna Annandale & Prashad, 1919
- Boreoelona Starobogatov & Streletzkaja, 1967[3]
- Bithynia Leach, 1818 - type genus[4]
- Subgenus Bithynia Leach, 1818
- Subgenus Codiella Locard, 1894[4]
- Subgenus Neumayria De Stefani, 1887[4]
- Subgenus Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924[4]
- Congodoma Mandahl-Barth, 1968
- Digoniostoma Annandale, 1920
- Funduella Mandahl-Barth, 1968
- Gabbia Tryon, 1865
- Gabbiella Mandahl-Barth, 1968
- Hydrobioides Nevill, 1884
- Incertihydrobia Verdcourt, 1958
- Jubaia Mandahl-Barth, 1968
- Limnitesta Mandahl-Barth, 1974
- Myosorella Annandale, 1919
- Pseudobithynia Glöer & Pešić, 2006[5]
- Pseudovivipara Annandale, 1918
- Sierraia Conolly, 1929
- Tylopoma Brusina, 1882
- Wattebledia Crosse, 1886
References
- ^ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. http://hdl.handle.net/10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
- ^ 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.
- ^ (Russian) Lazutkina E. A., Andreyeva S. I. & Andreyev N. I. (2010). " [Boreoelona sibirica (Westerlund, 1886) (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Bithynidae) in the waterbodies of Western Siberia and Middle Urals]". Ruthenica 20(2): 103-108. PDF
- ^ a b c d Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0. Reference for subgenera of genus Bithynia.
- ^ Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2006). "On the identity of Bithynia graeca Westerlund, 1879 with the description of three new Pseudobithynia n. gen. species from Iran and Greece (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae)". Malakologische Abhandlungen 24: 29-36. Dresden. PDF.