Bithynia tentaculata
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| Left side view of a live Bithynia tentaculata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Bithyniidae |
| Genus: | Bithynia |
| Species: | B. tentaculata |
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Bithynia tentaculata (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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. †* Amnicola (Amnicola) meridionalis (Frauenfeld, 1862) (described as Bithynia; junior synonym)
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. †* Amnicola (Amnicola) meridionalis (Frauenfeld, 1862) (described as Bithynia; junior synonym)
Bithynia tentaculata, common names the mud bithynia or common bithynia, or faucet snail is a relatively small species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
Bithynia tentaculata is the type species of the genus Bithynia.
Forms of Bithynia tentaculata include:
The variety † Bithynia tentaculata var. allobrogica Fontannes, 1881: synonym of † Bithynia minor Locard, 1878
The distribution of Bithynia tentaculata is Palearctic. The species occurs in:
Northern Europe:
Central Europe:
Western Europe:
Eastern Europe:
Southeastern Europe:
Bithynia tentaculata has been mentioned from Greece, but it does not occur there. It probably does not occur in Turkey and in Iran.
Bithynia tentaculata is nonindigenous in the United States and in Canada.
Great Lakes Region: Bithynia tentaculata was first recorded in Lake Michigan in 1871, but was probably introduced in 1870. It spread to Lake Ontario by 1879, the Hudson River by 1892, and other tributaries and water bodies in the Finger Lakes region during the 20th century. It was introduced to Lake Erie sometime before 1930. This snail’s range extends in 1992 from Quebec and Wisconsin to Pennsylvania and New York. It has been recorded from Lake Huron, but only a few individuals were found in benthic samples from Saginaw Bay in the 1980s and 1990s.
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