Pseudobithynia pentheri

Pseudobithynia pentheri
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Bithyniidae
Genus:	Pseudobithynia
Species:	P. pentheri
Binomial name
	Pseudobithynia pentheri; (Sturany, 1904)
Synonyms
	Bythinia pentheri Sturany, 1904

Pseudobithynia pentheri is a

mollusk in the family Bithyniidae

The specific name pentheri is in honor of malacologist Arnold Penther, who collected this species.^[2]

Glöer & Yildrim (2006)^[3] moved this species from the genus Bythinia to the genus Pseudobithynia in 2006.^[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Turkey.^[1]

The

type locality is "Vilayet Kayseri. Soisaly 1075 m ü.M".^[3]

^ ^a ^b Kebapçı U. (2011). "Pseudobithynia pentheri". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 1 January 2013.
^ ^a ^b (in German) Sturany R. (1904). "Kurze Diagnosen neuer Gastropoden". Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 41: 115-119. page 116.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Glöer P. & Yildrim Z. (2006). "Some records of Bithyniidae from Turkey with the description of Bithynia pesicii n. sp. (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae)". Malakologische Abhandlungen 24: 37-42. PDF.

Sturany R. (1905). "Schalentragende Mollusken". In: Penther A. & Zederbauer E. "Ergebnisse einer naturwissenschaftlichen Reise zum Erdschias-Dagh (Kleinasien)". Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 20(2/3): 295–307. Page 306, fig. 10.

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