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Bithynia troschelii

Bithynia transsilvanica
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Bithynia
Species: B. transsilvanica
Binomial name
Bithynia transsilvanica
(Bielz, 1853)
Synonyms
  • Bithynia leachii troschelii
  • Bithynia troschelii (Paasch, 1842)

Bithynia transsilvanica is species of freshwater snail, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

It was sometimes considered to be an eastern subspecies of Bithynia leachii, and then it was known as Bithynia leachii troschelii.

Specific epithet troschelii of its synonym is in honor of German zoologist Franz Hermann Troschel.

Height of shell: 9-11 mm. Width of shell: 5-6 mm.

Freshwater species.


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