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Bythinella austriaca
Two live specimens of Bythinella austriaca
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Bythinellidae
Genus:	Bythinella
Species:	B. austriaca
Binomial name
Bythinella austriaca (von Frauenfeld, 1857)

Bythinella austriaca is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Amnicolidae.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Carpathian (eastern alpine and Carpathian).

This species occurs in:

• Bulgaria
• Czech Republic – it lives mainly in Moravia and in eastern Bohemia, but there are also isolated populations near Prague
• Germany – lives only in Bayern and is endangered (Gefährdet)
• Poland
• Slovakia

Habitat

Bythinella austriaca lives in springs and in brooks near springs.

References

1. Fehér, Z.; Haase, M.; Reischütz, P. (2010). "Bythinella austriaca". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T155335A4778074. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T155335A4778074.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. Frauenfeld G. von (1857). Über die Paludinen aus der Gruppe der Paludina viridis Poir. Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. mathem.-naturwiss. Classe, 22(2): 569–578, 1 Table, Vienna, page 574.
3. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska . VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
4. ^ (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. ". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1–37. PDF.
5. (in Czech) Beran L. (2010). Izolované populace praménky Bythinella austriaca (Frauenfeld, 1857) (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) v okolí Prahy. ". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 9: 5–10. PDF
6. (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2

External links

[REDACTED] Media related to Bythinella austriaca at Wikimedia Commons

• IUCN Red List least concern species
• Bythinella
• Gastropods described in 1857
• Taxa named by Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld