Bithynia troschelii
| Bithynia troschelii | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Bithyniidae |
| Genus: | Bithynia |
| Subgenus: | Codiella |
| Species: | B. troschelii |
| Binomial name | |
| Bithynia troschelii (Paasch, 1842)[2] | |
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Bithynia troschelii is species of freshwater snail, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
Its specific epithet is in honor of German zoologist Franz Hermann Troschel.
Taxonomy
This is sometimes considered to be an eastern subspecies of Bithynia leachii, and then it is known as Bithynia leachii troschelii.
Distribution
- Czech Republic - It was thought to be locally extinct in Moravia andwas considered as regionally extinct in the Czech Republic (RE).[3] There were rediscovered populations in southern Moravia near Lednice and from Nesyt pond in 2008.[4] It was also discovered in Bohemia as a non-indigenous.[5]
- Slovakia[5]
- Germany - Recorded in Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony and Thuringia. It is considered as high endangered (Stark gefährdet) in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and in Lower Saxony.[6]
- Hungary[7]
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Description
Height of shell: 9-11 mm. Width of shell: 5-6 mm.
Habitat
Freshwater species.
References
- ↑ The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 August 2014.
- ↑ (German) Paasch A. (1842). "Beschreibung einer neuen bei Berlin gefundenen Paludina. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 300-301, Tab. 6. Berlin.
- ↑ (Czech) Beran L., Juřičková L. & Horsák M. (2005). Mollusca (měkkýši), pp. 69-74. In: Farkač J., Král D. & Škorpík M. [eds.], Červený seznam ohrožených druhů České republiky. Bezobratlí. Red list of threatened species in the Czech Republic. Invertebrates. – Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR, Praha, 760 pp.
- ↑ 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.
- 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.
- ↑ (German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- ↑ 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.
External links
- Falniowski A., Glöer P. & Szarowska M. (2004). "Bithynia troschelii (Paach, 1842), a giant of unknown origin?" Folia Malacologica 12(3): 137–139. PDF.
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