Borysthenia naticina explained

Borysthenia naticina is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pontic and Baltic regions as follows:^[1]

• Germany - critically endangered (vom Aussterben bedroht)^[2]
• Poland - critically endangered^[3]
• Slovakia^[4]

Habitat

This is a freshwater species.

Notes and References

1. Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
2. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106,
3. Web site: Borysthenia naticina (Menke, 1845) . Andrzej Piechocki . Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930022419/http://www.iop.krakow.pl/pckz/opis.asp?id=193&je=en . 2007-09-30 .
4. 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.