Borysthenia naticina

Borysthenia naticina is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

Borysthenia naticina
Subfossil shells
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Family: Valvatidae
Genus: Borysthenia
Species:
B. naticina
Binomial name
Borysthenia naticina
(Menke, 1845)[2]
Synonyms
  • Valvata naticina Menke, 1845
  • Valvata jelskii Crosse, 1863

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pontic and Baltic regions as follows:[3]

Habitat

This is a freshwater species.

References
  1. Seddon M. B. (2014). "Borysthenia naticina". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 August 2014.
  2. (in German) Menke K. T. (1845). "Kritische Übersicht der lebenden Valvata-Arten". Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 1845(8): 115-130. Hannover.
  3. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  4. (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
  5. (in Polish) pl:Polska Czerwona Księga Zwierząt - Bezkręgowce
  6. Andrzej Piechocki. "Borysthenia naticina (Menke, 1845)". Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.
  7. (in 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.


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