Biology:Bythinella austriaca

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Bythinella austriaca
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Two live specimens of Bythinella austriaca
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Bythinellidae
Genus: Bythinella
Species:
B. austriaca
Binomial name
Bythinella austriaca
(von Frauenfeld, 1857)[2]

Bythinella austriaca is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Amnicolidae.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Carpathian (eastern alpine and Carpathian).[3]

This species occurs in:

  • Bulgaria
  • Czech Republic[4] – it lives mainly in Moravia and in eastern Bohemia, but there are also isolated populations near Prague[5]
  • Germany – lives only in Bayern and is endangered (Gefährdet)[6]
  • Poland
  • Slovakia[4]
Drawing of the apertural view of the shell of Bythinella austriaca

Habitat

Bythinella austriaca lives in springs and in brooks near springs.

References

  1. Fehér, Z.; Haase, M.; Reischütz, P. (2010). "Bythinella austriaca". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T155335A4778074. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T155335A4778074.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/155335/4778074. Retrieved 18 November 2021. 
  2. Frauenfeld G. von (1857). Über die Paludinen aus der Gruppe der Paludina viridis Poir. Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. mathem.-naturwiss. Classe, 22(2): 569–578, 1 Table, Vienna, page 574.
  3. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  4. 4.0 4.1 (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.
  5. (in Czech) Beran L. (2010). Izolované populace praménky Bythinella austriaca (Frauenfeld, 1857) (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) v okolí Prahy. [Isolated populations of Bythinella austriaca (Frauenfeld, 1857) (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) in Prague surroundings (Czech Republic)]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 9: 5–10. PDF
  6. (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN:3-923376-02-2

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3164532 entry