Bythinella pupoides
species of mollusc
Bythinella pupoides is a species of very small freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bythinellidae.
Subspecies
Bythinella pupoides phreaticola R. Bernasconi, 1989
Bythinella pupoides pupoides (Paladilhe, 1869)
Bythinella pupoides jurana Locard, 1893: synonym of Avenionia brevis (Draparnaud, 1805) (a junior synonym)
This snail is found in France and Switzerland.
References
Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe.
External links
Paladilhe, A. (1869). Descriptions de quelques Paludinidées, Assiminidées et Mélanidées nouvelles. [Reissued as part VII with some small modifications in the text and supplemented with “Note additionelle et errata” and a “Table” for the completed work in fasc. 4 (1869: 101-144, pls 5-6) of Nouvelles miscellanées malacologiques (1866-1869), Savy, Paris.. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. ser.
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