Bithynia (gastropod)
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Bithynia is a genus of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.[2]
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Bithynia | |
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Bithynia tentaculata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Bithyniidae |
Genus: | Bithynia Leach, 1818[1] |
Type species | |
Helix tentaculata Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Species | |
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The diploid chromosome number of Bithynia sp. from Egypt is 2n=32.[3]