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Borysthenia naticina

Borysthenia naticina
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
Species: B. naticina
Binomial name
Borysthenia naticina
(Menke, 1845)
Synonyms

Valvata naticina Menke, 1845
Valvata jelskii Crosse, 1863


informal group Lower Heterobranchia

Valvata naticina Menke, 1845
Valvata jelskii Crosse, 1863

Borysthenia naticina is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

This species occurs in the Pontic and Baltic regions as follows:

This is a freshwater species.


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