Bithynia bavelensis

Bithynia bavelensis Temporal range: Early Pleistocene^[1] PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Bithyniidae
Genus:	Bithynia
Species:	B. bavelensis
Binomial name
*Bithynia bavelensis*

Bithynia bavelensis is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

The specific name bavelensis refers to its type locality, the village Bavel, Netherlands.

Distribution

The distribution of this species includes an Early Pleistocene of the Netherlands.^[1]

Operculum of Bithynia bavelensis.

1 2 Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 89.

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