Bythiospeum pfeifferi

Bythiospeum pfeifferi
Conservation status
Extinct^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Hydrobiidae
Genus:	Bythiospeum
Species:	† B. pfeifferi
Binomial name
*Bythiospeum pfeifferi* (Clessin, 1890)

Bythiospeum pfeifferi is an extinct species of very small freshwater snail that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.

Bythiospeum pfeifferi was listed as endangered in the 1996 IUCN Red List,^[2] but it is considered to be extinct.^[1]

Distribution

This species was endemic to Austria.

^ ^a ^b Fontaine B., Bouchet P., Van Achterberg K., Alonso-Zarazaga M. A., Araujo R. et al. (2007). "The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus." Biological Conservation 139: 167-185. Table 2 on the page 173. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012. PDF.
^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Bythiospeum pfeifferi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.