Bithyniidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Bithyniidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Bithyniidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bithyniidae
Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the 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.
...Bithyniidae in languages:
- Czech
- bahnivkovití
- Dutch
- Diepslakken
- Estonian
- keeristigulased
- Finnish
- hoikkasarvikotilot
- Hebrew
- ביתיניים
- Korean
- 쇠우렁이과
- Lithuanian
- Bitinijiniai
- Russian
- Битинииды
- Swedish
- snytesnäckor
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Aenigmula
- Amnicolidae
- Anabathridae
- Assimineidae
- Bithyniidae
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- Calopiidae
- Clenchiellidae
- Cochliopidae
- Elachisinidae
- Emmericiidae
- Epigridae
- Falsicingulidae
- Fontigentidae
- Helicostoidae
- Hydrobiidae
- Hydrococcidae
- Iravadiidae
- Lithoglyphidae
- Moitessieriidae
- Pomatiopsidae
- Spirostyliferinidae
- Stenothyridae
- Tateidae
- Teinostomatidae
- Tomichiidae
- Tornidae
- Truncatellidae
- Vitrinellidae






















