Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Truncatelloidea

Bithyniidae J. E. Gray, 1857

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bithyniinae J. E. Gray, 1857
Pseudobithynia Gloer & Pesic, 2006

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: faucet snails sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Schnauzenschnecken

Literature

original description	Turton W. (1857). Manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands: New edition, with additions by John Edward Gray. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts. 336 p.
basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
basis of record	Ponder W.F. (2019). Bithyniidae Gray, 1857. Pp. 101-103, in: C. Lydeard & C.S. Cummings (eds), Freshwater mollusks of the world. A distribution atlas. 242 pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
taxonomy source	Wilke, T.; Kehlmaier, C.; Stelbrink, B.; Albrecht, C.; Bouchet, P. (2023). Historical DNA solves century-old mystery on sessility in freshwater gastropods. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 185: 107813.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bithyniidae J. E. Gray, 1857. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:182697

Ruud A. Bank. Bithyniidae J. E. Gray, 1857. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/ee3c30cf-3107-44f4-a175-0935abda4550