page_title: Bithynia leachii
section_title: Shell description
hierarchical_section_title: Bithynia leachii / Shell description
caption_attribution_description: English: drawing of the shell of Bithynia leachii
context_page_description: Bithynia leachii is species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
context_section_description: The width of the shell is 3–7 mm. The height of the shell is 4–8 mm. The colour is brown or grey. There are 4 to 4.5 very convex whorls forming a short cone with a very deep suture in comparison to Bithynia tentaculata. The spire is shorter and less sharp than in Bithynia tentaculata. The aperture and operculum upside are smoothly rounded. The aperture is without a sharp point on the upper corner.
caption: Drawing of shell and operculum of Bithynia leachii.
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