Parafossarulus crassitesta

Parafossarulus crassitesta; Temporal range: Pleistocene
	The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Bithyniidae
Genus:	Parafossarulus
Species:	P. crassitesta
Binomial name
	Parafossarulus crassitesta; (Brömme, 1885)[1]
Synonyms
	Bithynia (Parafossarulus) crassitesta

Parafossarulus crassitesta is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

Glöer (2002)[2] reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus as a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for Asian species.

Distribution

This species occurred in Europe in the Pleistocene Epoch.

References

Brömme Ch. (1885). "Die Conchylien-Fauna des Mosbacher Diluvialsandes". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 38: 72-80. page 77.
Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.

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[1] Brömme Ch. (1885). "Die Conchylien-Fauna des Mosbacher Diluvialsandes". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 38: 72-80. page 77.

[Glöer_2002-2] Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.