Bithynia leachii
| Bithynia leachii | |
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| Shells of Bithynia leachii | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Bithyniidae |
| Genus: | Bithynia |
| Subgenus: | Codiella |
| Species: | B. leachii |
| Binomial name | |
| Bithynia leachii (Sheppard, 1823)[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Bithynia leachi (Sheppard, 1823) | |
Bithynia leachii is species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
Distribution
It is a Palearctic species found in North Africa and Europe to East Siberia.
- Czech Republic - near Morava River and near Thaya (Dyje) river in the most southern Moravia near Hlohovec, Kostice and Tvrdonice,[3][4] critically endangered (CR)[5]
- Germany - high endangered (Stark gefährdet)[6]
- Netherlands[7]
- Poland
- Slovakia - in Danube drainage basin (mainly in Žitný ostrov) and in Tisza drainage basin[4]
- Sweden
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Hungary[8]
- ...
Shell description
The width of the shell is 3-7 mm. The height of the shell is 4-8 mm. The colour is brown or grey. There are 4 to 4.5 very convex whorls with a very deep suture in comparison to Bithynia tentaculata. The aperture and operculum upside are rounded.[9]
Habitat
This species requires clean, calcium-rich water, which is slow-running and thickly weeded.[10]
Parasites
This species can act as first intermediate host for Prosthogonimus ovatus (family Prosthogonimidae).[11]
References
- ↑ Vavrova L., Cianfanelli S., Prie V., Georgiev D. & Ghamizi M. (2010). "Bithynia leachii". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 August 2014.
- ↑ Sheppard R. (1823). "Descriptions of seven new British land and fresh-water shells, with observations upon many other species, including a list of such as have been found in the county of Suffolk". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 14(1): 148-170, page 152.
- ↑ Beran L. & Horsák M. (2009) "Distribution of Bithynia leachii (Sheppard, 1823) and Bithynia troschelii (Paasch, 1842) (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae) in the Czech Republic". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 8: 19-23. PDF.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 (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.
- ↑ Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic
- ↑ (German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- ↑ (Dutch) Bithynia leachii — Anemoon
- ↑ Glöer P. & Fehér Z. (2004). "Bithynia leachii (Sheppard, 1823) and Bithynia troschelii (Paasch, 1842) in Hungary (Prosobranchia: Bithyniidae)". Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici 96: 285–297.
- ↑ "Species summary for Bithynia leachii". AnimalBase, last change 26 October 2013, accessed 4 June 2014.
- ↑ Horst Janus (1965). The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. Burke, London.
- ↑ http://wildlife1.wildlifeinformation.org/S/0zAPlat_Trematod/Plag_Hapl_Prosthogonimus/Prosthogonimus_ovatus.htm as Bithynia leachei (sic!)
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bithynia leachii. |
- Bithynia leachii Species account and photograph at Mollusc Ireland.