Bithynia fuchsiana

Bithynia fuchsiana is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum. It an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

Bithynia fuchsiana
Live Bithynia fuchsiana
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Bithyniidae
Genus:	Bithynia
Species:	B. fuchsiana
Binomial name
Bithynia fuchsiana (Möllendorff, 1888)

Distribution

Distribution of this species includes:

• southern and eastern China^[2][1]
• Taiwan^[1]
• the Red River delta, Vietnam^[3][1]

Ecology

Bithynia fuchsiana inhabits lentic habitats such as lakes, rice fields, ponds and others.^[1] It serves as the first intermediate host for the trematode Clonorchis sinensis.^[2]