Biology:Parafossarulus crassitesta

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Short description: Extinct species of gastropod

Parafossarulus crassitesta
Temporal range: Pleistocene
Parafossarulus crassitesta - Jockgrim - P1010073bis.JPG
The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta
Scientific classification
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Gastropoda
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P. crassitesta
Binomial name
Parafossarulus crassitesta
(Brömme, 1885)[1]
Synonyms

Bithynia (Parafossarulus) crassitesta

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

Glöer (2002)[2] reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus as a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for Asian species.

Distribution

This species occurred in Europe in the Pleistocene Epoch.

References

  1. Brömme Ch. (1885). "Die Conchylien-Fauna des Mosbacher Diluvialsandes". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 38: 72-80. page 77.
  2. Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN:3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.

Wikidata ☰ Q5236153 entry