Bythinella gloeeri

Bythinella gloeeri is a species of very small freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Amnicolidae (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Bythinella gloeeri

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Amnicolidae
Genus:
Bythinella
Species:
B. gloeeri
Binomial name
Bythinella gloeeri
(Georgiev, 2009)

Distribution

This species is endemic to Bulgaria, and is known only from a river in Lepenitsa Cave, in the Western Rhodopes mountain range.[1]

References
  1. Georgiev, D. (2010). "Bythinella gloeeri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2010: e.T172035A6825448. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T172035A6825448.en. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
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