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Bithyniidae
Sign in to saveBithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha.
Species
faucet snails
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyBithyniidae
Die Schnauzenschnecken (Bithyniidae) sind eine im Süß- und Brackwasser lebende Familie aus der Ordnung der Architaenioglossa innerhalb der Schnecken (Gastropoda).
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 90
- Family
- Bithyniidae
- Collections
- CAS, NMV, AM, OMNH, QM, DMNH
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Philippines, Netherlands, Australia, South Africa, United States, Japan, Thailand
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
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- Parent taxon
- Architaenioglossa
- Image
- Bithynia tentaculata.jpg
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- family
- taxon name
- Bithyniidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Bithyniidae
- taxon common name
- Schnauzenschnecken
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Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha.
Their shells are very small and often colored. They are characterized by a calcareous operculum, a lobe on the upper surface of the neck. The ctenidium, the respiratory gill-comb, is very broad. They have a ciliary feeding habit. The kidney has a large extension towards the mantle.
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