Pseudobithynia pentheri

Pseudobithynia pentheri is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

Pseudobithynia pentheri
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Bithyniidae
Genus:	Pseudobithynia
Species:	P. pentheri
Binomial name
Pseudobithynia pentheri (Sturany, 1904)[2]
Synonyms[3]
Bythinia pentheri Sturany, 1904

The specific name pentheri is in honor of malacologist Arnold Penther, who collected this species.^[2]

Peter Glöer & M. Zeki Yildrim moved the species from the genus Bythinia to the genus Pseudobithynia in 2006.^[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Turkey.^[1]

The type locality is "Vilayet Kayseri. Soisaly 1075 m ü.M".^[3]