Borysthenia naticina is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Family: | Valvatidae |
| Genus: | Borysthenia |
| Species: | B. naticina
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Distribution edit
This species occurs in the Pontic and Baltic regions as follows:[3]
Habitat edit
This is a freshwater species.
References edit
- ^ Seddon M. B. (2014). "Borysthenia naticina". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 August 2014.
- ^ (in German) Menke K. T. (1845). "Kritische Übersicht der lebenden Valvata-Arten". Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 1845(8): 115-130. Hannover.
- ^ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- ^ (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- ^ (in Polish) pl:Polska Czerwona Księga Zwierząt - Bezkręgowce
- ^ Andrzej Piechocki. "Borysthenia naticina (Menke, 1845)". Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.
- ^ (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.