Bythinella austriaca
| Bythinella austriaca | |
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| Two live specimens of Bythinella austriaca | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Bythinellidae |
| Genus: | Bythinella |
| Species: | B. austriaca
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| Binomial name | |
| Bythinella austriaca (von Frauenfeld, 1857)[2]
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Bythinella austriaca is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Amnicolidae.
Distribution[edit]
The distribution of this species is Carpathian (eastern alpine and Carpathian).[3]
This species occurs in:
- Bulgaria
- Czech Republic[4] – it lives mainly in Moravia and in eastern Bohemia, but there are also isolated populations near Prague[5]
- Germany – lives only in Bayern and is endangered (Gefährdet)[6]
- Poland
- Slovakia[4]
Habitat[edit]
Bythinella austriaca lives in springs and in brooks near springs.
References[edit]
- ^ Fehér, Z.; Haase, M.; Reischütz, P. (2010). "Bythinella austriaca". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T155335A4778074. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T155335A4778074.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ Frauenfeld G. von (1857). Über die Paludinen aus der Gruppe der Paludina viridis Poir. Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. mathem.-naturwiss. Classe, 22(2): 569–578, 1 Table, Vienna, page 574.
- ^ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- ^ a b (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1–37. PDF.
- ^ (in Czech) Beran L. (2010). Izolované populace praménky Bythinella austriaca (Frauenfeld, 1857) (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) v okolí Prahy. [Isolated populations of Bythinella austriaca (Frauenfeld, 1857) (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) in Prague surroundings (Czech Republic)]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 9: 5–10. PDF
- ^ (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
External links[edit]
Media related to Bythinella austriaca at Wikimedia Commons