Biology:Bithynia bavelensis

Bithynia bavelensis; Temporal range: Early Pleistocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	[[Biology:\|Rissooidea]]
Family:	Bithyniidae
Genus:	Bithynia
Species:	B. bavelensis
Binomial name
	Bithynia bavelensis; Meijer, 1990

Short description: Extinct species of gastropod

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.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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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