Bithynia tentaculata

Bithynia tentaculata
Left side view of a live Bithynia tentaculata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Bithynia
Species:
B. tentaculata
Binomial name
Bithynia tentaculata
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms

. †* Amnicola (Amnicola) meridionalis (Frauenfeld, 1862) (described as Bithynia; junior synonym)

  • Bithynia majewsky Frauenfeld, 1862
  • † Bithynia tentaculata tentaculata (Linnaeus, 1758) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Bulimus tentaculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (new combination; genus invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
  • † Bulimus tentaculatus tentaculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (genus invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
  • Helix tentaculata Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)

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.

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