Bithynia tentaculata

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Bithynia tentaculata
Left side view of a live Bithynia tentaculata

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Bithynia
Species:
B. tentaculata
Binomial name
Bithynia tentaculata
(Linnaeus, 1758)[2]
Synonyms

. †* Amnicola (Amnicola) meridionalis (Frauenfeld, 1862) (described as Bithynia; junior synonym)

  • Bithynia majewsky Frauenfeld, 1862
  • † Bithynia tentaculata tentaculata (Linnaeus, 1758) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Bulimus tentaculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (new combination; genus invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
  • † Bulimus tentaculatus tentaculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (genus invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
  • Helix tentaculata Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)

Bithynia tentaculata,

mollusk in the family Bithyniidae
.

Taxonomy

Bithynia tentaculata is the type species of the genus Bithynia.[4]

Forms of Bithynia tentaculata include:

  • Bithynia tentaculata f. codia
  • Bithynia tentaculata f. excavata
  • Bithynia tentaculata f. gigas
  • Bithynia tentaculata f. producta Menke, 1828
  • † Bithynia tentaculata tellinii Sacco, 1886

The variety † Bithynia tentaculata var. allobrogica Fontannes, 1881: synonym of † Bithynia minor Locard, 1878

Distribution

Indigenous distribution

The distribution of Bithynia tentaculata is

Palearctic.[5]
The species occurs in:

Northern Europe:

  • Scandinavia

Central Europe:

Western Europe:

Eastern Europe:

Southeastern Europe:

  • Bulgaria – There is southern distribution border of Bithynia tentaculata in northern Bulgaria.[4]
  • Croatia[11]

Bithynia tentaculata has been mentioned from Greece, but it does not occur there.[4] It probably does not occur in Turkey and in Iran.[4]

Nonindigenous distribution

Bithynia tentaculata is nonindigenous in the United States[3] and in Canada.

Great Lakes Region: Bithynia tentaculata was first recorded in Lake Michigan in 1871, but was probably introduced in 1870.[12] It spread to Lake Ontario by 1879, the Hudson River by 1892, and other tributaries and water bodies in the Finger Lakes region during the 20th century.[13][12] It was introduced to Lake Erie sometime before 1930.[14][15] This snail's range extends in 1992 from Quebec and Wisconsin to Pennsylvania and New York.[13] It has been recorded from Lake Huron, but only a few individuals were found in benthic samples from Saginaw Bay in the 1980s and 1990s.[16]

In the Mid-Atlantic Region it is found in Lake Champlain, widespread across New York, Potomac River in Virginia. Established in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland (Ruiz 2000).[citation needed]

Description

A shell of Bithynia tentaculata
Operculum of Bithynia tentaculata

The height of shell is usually no larger than 12–15 mm. The snail is sexually mature by the time the height of shell reaches 8 mm in size.[13][17][18][19]

The width of the shell is 5–7 mm.[citation needed]

The faucet snail has a shiny pale brown shell, oval in shape, with a relatively large and rounded spire consisting of 5–6 somewhat flattened whorls, no umbilicus, and a very thick lip.[13][17][20] The aperture is less than half the height of the shell.[20]

Adult Bithynia tentaculata possess a white, calcareous, tear-drop to oval-shaped operculum with distinct concentric rings.[13][19][20] The operculum of juveniles, however, is spirally marked.[13] The operculum (on the back of the foot) is always situated very close to the aperture of the shell.[13] The animal itself has pointed, long tentacles and a simple foot with the right cervical lobe acting as a channel for water.[13]

Foot of Bithynia tentaculata

Ecology

Habitat

This snail lives in slow-running freshwater habitat such as low-velocity rivers, and standing-water bodies such as lakes. The species flourishes in calcium-rich waters.

It is commonly found in freshwater

muskgrass, Chara spp.) in warmer months.[13][19]
Saint Lawrence River, it tends to occur in relatively unpolluted, nearshore areas[22] and amongst dreissenid mussel beds.[23]

Feeding habits

This species functions as both a scraper and a collector-filterer, grazing on algae on the substrate, as well as using its gills to filter suspended algae from the water column. When filter feeding, algae is sucked in, condensed, and then passed out between the right tentacle and exhalant siphon in pellet-like packages which are then eaten.[13] The ability to filter feed may play a role in allowing populations of the faucet snail to survive at high densities in relatively eutrophic, anthropogenically influenced water bodies.[13] Bithynia tentaculata feeds selectively on food items.[24] The faucet snail is known in Eurasia to feed on black fly larvae.[25]

Life cycle

Egg capsules of Bithynia tentaculata with gastropods shortly before hatching.

Bithynia tentaculata is

dioecious (it has two separate sexes) and lays its eggs on rocks, wood and shells in organized aggregates arranged in double rows, in clumps of 1 to 77. Egg-laying occurs from May to July when water temperature is 20 °C (68 °F) or higher, and sometimes a second time in October and November by females born early in the year. The density of eggs on the substrate can sometimes reach 155 clumps/m2 (14.4 clumps/sq ft). Fecundity may reach up to 347 eggs and is greatest for the 2nd year class. Eggs hatch in three weeks to three months, depending on water temperature. Oocytes develop poorly at temperatures of 30 to 34 °C (86 to 93 °F). Growth usually does not occur from September to May. The lifespan varies regionally and can be anywhere from 17 to 39 months.[13][26]

The faucet snail has the potential to be a good

biomonitor for contaminants such as Cd, Zn, and methylmercury (MeHg) because there are good correlations between environmental concentrations and snail tissue concentrations with respect to these toxic compounds.[27][28]

Parasites

In its native Eurasian habitat, the faucet snail is host to many different species of digeneans, cercariae, metacercariae, cysticercoids, and other parasites.[29][30][31]

Parasites of Bithynia tentaculata include trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.[39]

Other interspecific relationship

Natural dispersal of this snail is known to occur by passive transport in birds.[40]

Bithynia tentaculata is capable of detecting the presence of molluscivorous

chemoreception and of closing its operculum to avoid predation.[41]

References

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