Pseudobithynia pentheri

Pseudobithynia pentheri is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

Pseudobithynia pentheri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda

clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Bithyniidae
Genus:
Pseudobithynia
Species:
P. pentheri
Binomial name
Pseudobithynia pentheri
(Sturany, 1904)[2]
Synonyms[3]

Bythinia pentheri Sturany, 1904

The specific name pentheri is in honor of malacologist Arnold Penther, who collected this species.[2]

Glöer & Yildrim (2006)[3] moved this species from the genus Bythinia to the genus Pseudobithynia in 2006.[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Turkey.[1]

The type locality is "Vilayet Kayseri. Soisaly 1075 m ü.M".[3]

References
  1. Kebapçı U. (2011). "Pseudobithynia pentheri". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 1 January 2013.
  2. (in German) Sturany R. (1904). "Kurze Diagnosen neuer Gastropoden". Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 41: 115-119. page 116.
  3. Glöer P. & Yildrim Z. (2006). "Some records of Bithyniidae from Turkey with the description of Bithynia pesicii n. sp. (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae)". Malakologische Abhandlungen 24: 37-42. PDF.
  • Sturany R. (1905). "Schalentragende Mollusken". In: Penther A. & Zederbauer E. "Ergebnisse einer naturwissenschaftlichen Reise zum Erdschias-Dagh (Kleinasien)". Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 20(2/3): 295–307. Page 306, fig. 10.
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