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Bithynia bavelensis
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene[1]
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prehistoric
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda

clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Bithyniidae
Genus:
Bithynia
Subgenus:
Neumayria[1]
Species:
B. bavelensis
Binomial name
Bithynia bavelensis
Meijer, 1990[2]

Bithynia bavelensis is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

The specific name bavelensis refers to its type locality, the village Bavel, Netherlands.

Distribution

The distribution of this species includes an Early Pleistocene of the Netherlands.[1]

Description

Operculum of Bithynia bavelensis.

References

  1. ^ a b c Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 89.
  2. ^ Meijer T. (1990). "Notes on Quaternary freshwater Mollusca of the Netherlands, with descriptions of some new species." Meded. Werkgr. tert. kwart. Geol. 26(4): 145-181. page 149.
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