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Borysthenia

Borysthenia
Temporal range: at least from -Recent
Borysthenia naticina shell.jpg
Subfossil shells of Borysthenia naticina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

informal group Lower Heterobranchia

Superfamily: Valvatoidea
Family: Valvatidae
Genus: Borysthenia
Lindholm, 1913

informal group Lower Heterobranchia

Borysthenia is a genus of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

The aperture of Borysthenia is not circular. Animals are ovoviviparous.

The genus Borysthenia contains the following species:


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