Bythinella austriaca
Description
11. Bythinella austriaca (Frauenfeld, 1857)
Findings in Serbia.
Bythinella austriaca: Filipović (1954); Tomić (1959).
Common name. Austrian spring snail.
Morphology. Minute snails (ovoid cylindric shell up to 3 mm high). It has 3.5–4.5 regularly increasing whorls separated by deep suture almost perpendicular to the columella and blunt apex. More details in Glöer (2002: 164, figs 198–201).
Distribution and ecology. Central European species preferring cold clean waters with increased carbonate levels (in springs and adjacent brook systems) (Sturm 2016). In Serbia, it has been reported from few springs (Vrujci, Čočića vrelo and Široke Luke Springs) from central and eastern Serbia.
Other remarks. A wider distribution range of this species, accompanied with quite narrow ecological preferences, low dispersal ability and highly isolated habitats (Benke et al. 2009; Beran 2010; Sturm 2016), brings possibility for intraspecific diversification. In that regard Glöer (2002) has distinguished four subspecies. On the IUCN Red List it has been assessed as LC (Fehér et al. 2010).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Frauenfeld
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Hydrobiidae
- Genus
- Bythinella
- Species
- austriaca
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bythinella austriaca (Frauenfeld, 1857) sec. Marković, Gojšina, Novaković, Božanić, Stojanović, Karan-Žnidaršič & Živić, 2021
References
- Frauenfeld, G. (1857) Uber die Paludinen aus der Gruppe der Pal. viridis Poir. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 22 (2), 569 - 578.
- Filipovic, D. (1954) Investigations on life world of running waters of Serbia I. Contribution to the knowledge of the mountain fauna in stream Katusnica (Western Serbia). SANU, Institute for ecology and biogeography, 5 (8), 117 - 133.
- Tomic, V. (1959) s. n. In: P. S. Pavlovic's collection of the recent Gastropoda in the Natural History Museum in Beograd. SANU, Posebna izdanja, 27, pp. 1 - 74. [in Serbian]
- Gloer, P. (2002) Die Susswassergastropoden Nord und Mitteleuropas: Bestimmungsschlussel, Lebensweise, Verbreitung Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. Vol. 73. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 327 pp.
- Sturm, R. (2016) Modelling ecological specificities of freshwater molluscs: the exemplary case of Bythinella austriaca (v. Frauenfeld, 1857) (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Limnology, 75 (3), 626 - 633. https: // doi. org / 10.4081 / jlimnol. 2016.1468
- Benke, M., Brandle, M., Albrecht, C. & Wilke, T. (2009) Pleistocene phylogeography and phylogenetic concordance in coldadapted spring snails (Bythinella spp.). Molecular Ecology, 18 (5), 890 - 903. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 294 X. 2008.04073. x
- Beran, L. (2010) Izolovane populace pramenky Bythinella austriaca (Frauenfeld, 1857) (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) v okoli Prahy. Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 9, 5 - 10.
- Feher, Z., Haase, M. & Reischutz, P. (2010) Bythinella austriaca. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010, e. T 155335 A 4778074. [downloaded 3 May 2021]