Borysthenia naticina
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| Borysthenia naticina | |
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| subfossil shells of Borysthenia naticina | |
| Conservation status | |
| NE[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal group Lower Heterobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Valvatoidea |
| Family: | Valvatidae |
| Genus: | Borysthenia |
| Species: | B. naticina |
| Binomial name | |
| Borysthenia naticina (Menke, 1845)[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Valvata naticina Menke, 1845 | |
Borysthenia naticina is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pontic and Baltic regions as follows:[3]
- Germany - critically endangered (vom Aussterben bedroht)[4]
- Poland - critically endangered[5][6]
- Slovakia
Habitat
This is a freshwater species.
References
- ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 10 April 2007.
- ↑ (German) Menke, K. T. 1845. Kritische Übersicht der lebenden Valvata-Arten. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 1845 (8): 115-130. Hannover.
- ↑ (Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- ↑ (German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- ↑ (Polish) pl:Polska Czerwona Księga Zwierząt - Bezkręgowce
- ↑ Andrzej Piechocki. "Borysthenia naticina (Menke, 1845)". Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
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