Bithynia bavelensis
| Bithynia bavelensis Temporal range: Early Pleistocene[1] | |
|---|---|
| prehistoric | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Bithyniidae |
| Genus: | Bithynia |
| Subgenus: | Neumayria[1] |
| Species: | B. bavelensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Bithynia bavelensis Meijer, 1990[2] | |
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]
Description
Operculum of Bithynia bavelensis.
References
- 1 2 3 Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 89.
- ↑ Meijer T. (1990). "Notes on Quaternary freshwater Mollusca of the Netherlands, with descriptions of some new species." Meded. Werkgr. tert. kwart. Geol. 26(4): 145-181. page 149.
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