Bithyniidae Explained

Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.^[1]

Their minute shell is often colored. They are characterized by a calcareous operculum, a lobe on the upper surface of the neck. The ctenidium, the respiratory gill-comb, is very broad. They have a ciliary feeding habit. The kidney has a large extension towards the mantle.^[2]

Genera

Genera in the family Bithyniidae include:

• Alocinna Annandale & Prashad, 1919
• Bithynia Leach, 1818 - type genus^[3]
  • Subgenus Bithynia Leach, 1818
  • Subgenus Codiella Locard, 1894^[3]
• † Celekenia Andrusov, 1902
• Boreoelona Starobogatov & Streletzkaja, 1967^[4]
• Congodoma Mandahl-Barth, 1968
• † Daciella Wenz, 1942
• Digoniostoma Annandale, 1920
• Emmericiopsis Thiele, 1928
• † Euchilus Sandberger, 1870
• † Ferebithynia Kókay, 2006
• Funduella Mandahl-Barth, 1968
• Gabbiella Mandahl-Barth, 1968
• Hydrobioides Nevill, 1884
• Incertihydrobia Verdcourt, 1958
• Jubaia Mandahl-Barth, 1968
• Limnitesta Mandahl-Barth, 1974
• Myosorella Annandale, 1919
• Neosataria Kulkarni & Khot, 2015
• Neumayria de Stefani, 1877
• Parabithynia Pilsbry, 1928
• Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924
• Pseudobithynia Glöer & Pešić, 2006^[5]
• Pseudovivipara Annandale, 1918
• Sierraia Conolly, 1929
• † Tylopoma Brusina, 1882
• Wattebledia Crosse, 1886

Genera brought into synonymy:

• Bithinia Leach, 1818: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
• Bulimus Scopoli, 1777: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
• Bythinia Stein, 1850: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
• Digyrcidum Locard, 1882: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
• Gabbia Tryon, 1865: synonym of Bithynia (Gabbia) Tryon, 1865 represented as Bithynia Leach, 1818
• Paraelona Beriozkina & Starobogatov, 1994: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818

References

• Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149–166.

External links

• Worldwide Mollusk Species Database: Bithyniidae

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Bithyniidae Gray, 1857. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182697 on 2016-02-28
2. Lilly, M.M.. The mode of life and the structure and functioning of the reproductive ducts of Bithynia tentaculata (L.). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1953. 30. 4–5. 87–110.
3. Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., . Reference for subgenera of genus Bithynia.
4. Lazutkina E. A., Andreyeva S. I. & Andreyev N. I. (2010). " [''Boreoelona sibirica'' (Westerlund, 1886) (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Bithynidae) in the waterbodies of Western Siberia and Middle Urals]". Ruthenica 20(2): 103-108. PDF
5. Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2006). "On the identity of Bithynia graeca Westerlund, 1879 with the description of three new Pseudobithynia n. gen. species from Iran and Greece (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae)". Malakologische Abhandlungen 24: 29-36. Dresden. PDF.