title: Bythinella austriaca
text: # Bythinella austriaca
  
  Bythinella austriaca is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Amnicolidae.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  The distribution of this species is Carpathian (eastern alpine and Carpathian).
  
  This species occurs in:
  
  * Bulgaria
  * Czech Republic – it lives mainly in Moravia and in eastern Bohemia, but there are also isolated populations near Prague
  * Germany – lives only in Bayern and is endangered (Gefährdet)
  * Poland
  * Slovakia
  
  ## Habitat
  
  Bythinella austriaca lives in springs and in brooks near springs.
  
  