Theodoxus transversalis

Taxobox
name = "Theodoxus transversalis"

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status = DD | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
ordo = Neritoida
superfamilia = Neritoidea
familia = Neritidae
genus = "Theodoxus"
species = "T. transversalis"
binomial = "Theodoxus transversalis"
binomial_authority = (C. Pfeiffer, 1828)

"Theodoxus transversalis" is a small species of freshwater snail with an operculum. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Distribution and conservation status

Distribution: Danubian.

* Listed in IUCN red list with status data deficient (DD) [cite book |author=Mollusc Specialist Group |year=1996 |chapter="Theodoxus transversalis" |title=2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |accessdate=2007-06-14 |url=http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/21726/summ |publisher=IUCN]

* Austria
* Bulgaria
* Germany - in Bavaria only and it is critically endangered ("vom Aussterben bedroht") [Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 108, ISBN 3-923376-02-2]
* Slovakia - extinct
* Hungary
* Moldova
* Romania
* Serbia and Montenegro
* Ukraine

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