| Bithynia
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| Bithynia tentaculata
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Mollusca
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| Class:
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Gastropoda
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| Subclass:
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Caenogastropoda
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| Order:
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Littorinimorpha
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| Superfamily:
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Truncatelloidea
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| Family:
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Bithyniidae
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| Genus:
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Bithynia
Leach, 1818
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| Type species
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Helix tentaculata
Linnaeus, 1758
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| Species
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See text
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| Synonyms
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- Bithinia Leach, 1818 (misspelling)
- Bithynia (Bithynia) Leach, 1818 · accepted, alternate representation
- Bithynia (Digoniostoma) Annandale, 1920 · accepted, alternate representation
- Bithynia (Gabbia) Tryon, 1865 · accepted, alternate representation
- †Bithynia (Pseudemmericia) Schlickum, 1968
- Bulimus Scopoli, 1777 (invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
- Bulimus (Bulimus) Scopoli, 1777 (genus invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
- Bythinia Stein, 1850 (invalid: unjustified emendation of Bithynia; placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 475)
- Digoniostoma Annandale, 1920
- Digyrcidum Locard, 1882
- Gabbia Tryon, 1865
- Paraelona Beriozkina & Starobogatov, 1994
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Bithynia is a genus of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.
The diploid chromosome number of Bithynia sp. from Egypt is 2n=32.