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Bithyniidae
	Bithynia tentaculata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Bithyniidae; Gray, 1857
Genera
	See text
Diversity
	about 130 freshwater species

Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.^[2]

Their minute shell is 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.^[3]

Genera

Genera in the family Bithyniidae include:

Alocinna Annandale & Prashad, 1919
Bithynia Leach, 1818 - type genus^[4]
- Subgenus Bithynia Leach, 1818
- Subgenus Codiella Locard, 1894^[4]
† Celekenia Andrusov, 1902
Boreoelona Starobogatov & Streletzkaja, 1967^[5]
Congodoma Mandahl-Barth, 1968
† Daciella Wenz, 1942
Digoniostoma Annandale, 1920
Emmericiopsis Thiele, 1928
† Euchilus Sandberger, 1870
† Ferebithynia Kókay, 2006
Funduella Mandahl-Barth, 1968
Gabbiella Mandahl-Barth, 1968
Hydrobioides Nevill, 1884
Incertihydrobia Verdcourt, 1958
Jubaia Mandahl-Barth, 1968
Limnitesta Mandahl-Barth, 1974
Myosorella Annandale, 1919
Neosataria Kulkarni & Khot, 2015
Neumayria de Stefani, 1877
Parabithynia Pilsbry, 1928
Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924
Pseudobithynia Glöer & Pešić, 2006^[6]
Pseudovivipara Annandale, 1918
Sierraia Conolly, 1929
† Tylopoma Brusina, 1882
Wattebledia Crosse, 1886

Genera brought into synonymy

Bithinia Leach, 1818: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
Bulimus Scopoli, 1777: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
Bythinia Stein, 1850: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
Digyrcidum Locard, 1882: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818
Gabbia Tryon, 1865: synonym of Bithynia (Gabbia) Tryon, 1865 represented as Bithynia Leach, 1818
Paraelona Beriozkina & Starobogatov, 1994: synonym of Bithynia Leach, 1818

References

^ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
^ ^a ^b Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Bithyniidae Gray, 1857. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182697 on 2016-02-28
^ Lilly, M.M. (1953). "The mode of life and the structure and functioning of the reproductive ducts of Bithynia tentaculata (L.)". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 30 (4–5): 87–110.
^ ^a ^b Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0. Reference for subgenera of genus Bithynia.
^ (in Russian) Lazutkina E. A., Andreyeva S. I. & Andreyev N. I. (2010). " [Boreoelona sibirica (Westerlund, 1886) (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Bithynidae) in the waterbodies of Western Siberia and Middle Urals]". Ruthenica 20(2): 103-108. PDF Archived 2020-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
^ Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2006). "On the identity of Bithynia graeca Westerlund, 1879 with the description of three new Pseudobithynia n. gen. species from Iran and Greece (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae)". Malakologische Abhandlungen 24: 29-36. Dresden. PDF.

Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149–166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6