Welcome to Bithynia tentaculata! Or more commonly known as the faucet snail, mud bithynia or common bithynia!

Photo of Bithynia tentaculata

With its cute coiled shell and long, pointed tentacles how could you not want to learn more about this creature?...

 

 

 

 

 

 Visit each page to learn more about the water habitat where it lays eggs that look like GOOEY EYEBALLS, where it SCRAPES food off substrate and some interesting interactions with PARASITES!                                           

 

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