''Pseudobithynia pentheri'' is a

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freshwater snail Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs ...

with a

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and an operculum, an aquatic

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in the family

Bithyniidae Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Bithyniidae Gray, 1857. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

. The

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''pentheri'' is in honor of malacologist Arnold Penther, who collected this species. Peter Glöer & M. Zeki Yildrim moved the species from the genus ''Bythinia'' to the genus ''Pseudobithynia'' in 2006.

Distribution

This species is endemic to

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. The type locality is "Vilayet

Kayseri Kayseri (; el, Καισάρεια) is a large Industrialisation, industrialised List of cities in Turkey, city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri Province, Kayseri province. The Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality area is comp ...

. Soisaly 1075 m ü.M".Glöer P. & Yildrim Z. (2006). "Some records of Bithyniidae from Turkey with the description of ''Bithynia pesicii'' n. sp. (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae)". '' Malakologische Abhandlungen'' 24: 37-42
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References

External links

* Sturany R. (1905). "Schalentragende Mollusken". In: Penther A. & Zederbauer E. "Ergebnisse einer naturwissenschaftlichen Reise zum Erdschias-Dagh (Kleinasien)". '' Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien'' 20(2/3)
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