Biology:Bythinella intermedia

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Bythinella intermedia
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Bythinellidae
Genus: Bythinella
Species:
B. intermedia
Binomial name
Bythinella intermedia
(Melleville, 1843)

Bythinella intermedia (formerly known as Bythinella austriaca austriaca) is a recently extinct species of very small freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Amnicolidae.

This species used to be endemic to Austria. The IUCN listed it as extinct in 2006.[1]

References

  1. Fontaine, Benoît; Bouchet, Philippe; Van Achterberg, Kees; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel Angel; Araujo, Rafael; Asche, Manfred; Aspöck, Ulrike; Audisio, Paolo et al. (1 September 2007). "The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus". Biological Conservation 139 (1): 167–185. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5004631 entry