Bythiospeum is a genus of very small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.[2]

Bythiospeum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Moitessieriidae
Genus: Bythiospeum
Bourguignat, 1882[1]
Type species
Paludina pellucida Seckendorf, 1846
Seckendorf, 1846
Synonyms

Vitrella Clessin, 1877 (invalid: junior homonym of Vitrella Swainson, 1840; Bythiospeum is a replacement name)

Species edit

Species within the genus Bythiospeum include:

Species brought into synonymy

References edit

  1. ^ Bourguignat, J. R. (1882). Bythiospeum 3.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Bythiospeum Bourguignat, 1882. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=475218 on 2015-03-25

External links edit

  • "Bythiospeum (Genus)". ZipcodeZoo. Archived from the original on 2011-01-05.