Bithynia majorcina facts for kids
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Bithynia majorcina is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Bithyniidae.
Description
The shell is yellowish horn-coloured, glossy, with 5.5 whorls. It is shallow and oval rounded at the top. The shell height is 7.6-9.5 mm, width 4.9-6.0 mm.
Distribution
The species is only known from Majorca where it lives on calcareous bottom of consolidate sediments with stones in the Torrent (Mountain stream) Son Jordi, which is the locus typicus, and in the Torrent de Sóller.
See also
In Spanish: Bithynia majorcina para niños
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