Pseudobithynia pentheri

Pseudobithynia pentheri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Pseudobithynia
Species: P. pentheri
Binomial name
Pseudobithynia pentheri
(Sturany, 1904)[2]
Synonyms[3]

Bythinia pentheri Sturany, 1904

Pseudobithynia pentheri is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

The specific name pentheri is in honor of malacologist Arnold Penther, who collected this species.[2]

Glöer & Yildrim (2006)[3] moved this species from the genus Bythinia to the genus Pseudobithynia in 2006.[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Turkey.[1]

The type locality is "Vilayet Kayseri. Soisaly 1075 m ü.M".[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Kebapçı U. (2011). "Pseudobithynia pentheri". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 1 January 2013.
  2. 1 2 (German) Sturany R. (1904). "Kurze Diagnosen neuer Gastropoden". Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 41: 115-119. page 116.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Glöer P. & Yildrim Z. (2006). "Some records of Bithyniidae from Turkey with the description of Bithynia pesicii n. sp. (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae)". Malakologische Abhandlungen 24: 37-42. PDF.
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