Parafossarulus crassitesta Temporal range:
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The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Bithyniidae |
Genus: | Parafossarulus |
Species: | P. crassitesta
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Binomial name | |
Parafossarulus crassitesta | |
Synonyms | |
Bithynia (Parafossarulus) crassitesta |
Parafossarulus crassitesta is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
Glöer (2002)[2] reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus as a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for Asian species.
Distribution
This species occurred in Europe in the Pleistocene Epoch.
References
- ^ Brömme Ch. (1885). "Die Conchylien-Fauna des Mosbacher Diluvialsandes". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 38: 72-80. page 77.
- ^ Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.