Pseudobithynia renei

Pseudobithynia renei
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Bithyniidae
Genus:	Pseudobithynia
Species:	P. renei
Binomial name
Pseudobithynia renei (Letourneux, 1887)[2]
Synonyms[3]
Digyreidum renei Letourneux, 1887 Bithynia renei (Letourneux, 1887)

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

Distribution

The distribution of this species includes:

• Greece^[1]

The type locality is (in French language) "Marais de Cressida près Corfou", Corfu, Greece.^[2][3]

Description

The width of the shell is 4 mm.^[2] The height of the shell is 6 mm.^[2]

References

1. Seddon M. (2011). "Pseudobithynia renei". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 1 January 2013.
2. Letourneux A. (1887). "Apercu monographique sur le genre Digyreidum". Bulletins de la Société malacologique de France 4: 67-72. page 70.
3. 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.

External links

• Locard A. (1894). "Les Bythinia du système européen. Revision des espèces appartenant à ce genre d’après la collection BOURGUIGNAT". Revue suisse de Zoologie 2(1): 65-134, plates 5–6. Page 89, plate VI, fig. 19.