Bithynia fuchsiana | |
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Live Bithynia fuchsiana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Bithyniidae |
Genus: | Bithynia |
Species: | B. fuchsiana
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Binomial name | |
Bithynia fuchsiana (
Möllendorff, 1888)
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Bithynia fuchsiana is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum. It an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
Distribution of this species includes:
Bithynia fuchsiana inhabits lentic habitats such as lakes, rice fields, ponds and others. [1] It serves as the first intermediate host for the trematode Clonorchis sinensis. [2]