Species notes
About Bithynia tentaculata
Bithynia tentaculata (also recorded as Common Bithynia) is an accepted species in the family Bithyniidae, within the order Littorinimorpha. Checklist records aggregated by GBIF list it from North America, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Finland, Kaliningrad, and Luxembourg. Land snails are molluscs that move on a muscular foot and usually carry a coiled shell that protects the soft body.
- Common name
- Common Bithynia
- Family
- Bithyniidae
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Identification rank
- Species
- Recorded distribution
- North America, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Finland, Kaliningrad, Luxembourg
Taxonomy source: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
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