Bithynia bavelensis
Bithynia bavelensis is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
| Bithynia bavelensis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Bithyniidae |
| Genus: | Bithynia |
| Species: | B. bavelensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Bithynia bavelensis Meijer, 1990 | |
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.
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gollark: `foldl (*) 1`? No, that is equivalent to `foldl (*) [1, 2, 3, 4]`
gollark: `1 2 3 4 (*) fld`, incidentally, is Cool.
References
- Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 89.
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