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Bithynia forcarti Glöer & Pešić 2012

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The whitish shell is conical with 5.5 whorls, which are convex with a deep suture and a small and acute apex. The convex whorls are flattened at the suture. The umbilicus is open. The aperture is ovate, angled at the top. The margin of the aperture is, from lateral view, slightly sinuated. The surface is smooth with fine growth lines. Shell height 5.5 – 7.5 mm, width 5.0 – 5.6 mm.
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Peter Glöer, Vladimir Pešić
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Glöer P, Pešić V (2012) The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species ZooKeys 219: 11–61
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Peter Glöer
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Vladimir Pešić
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