| Bithynia |
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| Bithynia tentaculata |
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| Scientific classification |
| Domain: |
Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Mollusca |
| Class: |
Gastropoda |
| Subclass: |
Caenogastropoda |
| Order: |
Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: |
Truncatelloidea |
| Family: |
Bithyniidae |
| Genus: |
Bithynia
Leach, 1818 |
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| Type species |
Helix tentaculata
Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Species |
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See text |
| Synonyms |
- Bithinia Leach, 1818 (misspelling)
- Bithynia (Bithynia) Leach, 1818 · accepted, alternate representation
- Bithynia (Digoniostoma) Annandale, 1920 · accepted, alternate representation
- Bithynia (Gabbia) Tryon, 1865 · accepted, alternate representation
- †Bithynia (Pseudemmericia) Schlickum, 1968
- Bulimus Scopoli, 1777 (invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
- Bulimus (Bulimus) Scopoli, 1777 (genus invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
- Bythinia Stein, 1850 (invalid: unjustified emendation of Bithynia; placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
- Digoniostoma Annandale, 1920
- Digyrcidum Locard, 1882
- Gabbia Tryon, 1865
- Paraelona Beriozkina & Starobogatov, 1994
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Bithynia is a genus of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.
The diploid chromosome number of Bithynia sp. from Egypt is 2n=32.